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Enclosure

Cashel (Ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cashel, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cashel (Ballynahinch By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cashel Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Cashel Fort
Coordinates
53.42345, -9.79496
SMR number
GA051-002----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On E shoulder of Cashel Hill. Known locally as Caiseal Árd, this is a poorly preserved circular earthen enclosure (D 27m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from S through W to NE; elsewhere a scarp exists. The outer bank, which is revetted with stone, is overlain by a field wall from E to S and has been removed from W to N. The interior contains a graveyard (GA051-002001-), marked 'Burying Ground' on 1st and 2nd (1899) eds. of OS 6-inch map, and a rectangular stone-built leacht (L 1.5m, Wth 1.4m, H 0.45m). A holy well (GA051-003----) lies to NE . Though its morphology resembles that of a ringfort, its association with the well and burial ground suggests that it may be an ecclesiastical enclosure. (Robinson 1985, 7; Killanin 1954, 102; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 103)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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