Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glengowla East,Glengowla West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glengowla East,Glengowla West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41908, -9.38110
- SMR number
- GA054-034----
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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 S end of a ridge. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S c. 35m, E-W 30m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain from E through S to W by a modern field wall. A gap at NW appears modern.
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
- Mine - leadunder 1 mi
- Mine - leadunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.