Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahermorris, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermorris
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42873, -8.99158
- SMR number
- GA056-042----
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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
Some 25m NW of a large enclosure (GA056-043001-). When inspected in September 1983 this poorly preserved circular cashel (D 35m) was defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.8m; H 0.3-0.4m) which was obscured by overgrowth. A field wall cut through the monument at NW and SE. On re-inspection in May 1991 it was noted that as a result of land clearance in the
area field-clearance rubble was dumped against the external face of the E half of the cashel wall.
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 14 August 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1991).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.