Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Fearagha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fearagha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Fort Cahernally
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahernally
- Coordinates
- 53.45283, -8.99196
- SMR number
- GA056-064----
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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
In grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 45m by c. 35m). By time of 3rd ed. (1920), its NE end appears to have been truncated by a field boundary. Though known locally as the site of a 'fairy fort', no visible surface trace survives.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.