Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cahergal (headford Ed.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahergal (headford Ed.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahergal
- Coordinates
- 53.45059, -9.10930
- SMR number
- GA055-022----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low ridge in gently rolling grassland. Well-preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 42.3m, E-W 37.4m) defined by a massive drystone wall. There is an entrance at SE. A number of field walls radiate from the enclosing element and a trackway encircles it at E. Some grassed-over stone walls are visible within the interior. (Kelly 1897, 387; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 183-4)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.