Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Caheravoley, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caheravoley
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42216, -8.91917
- SMR number
- GA057-067004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 undulating scrubland and rock outcrop. This Nat. Mon., a fairly well-preserved large rectangular bawn (GA057-067001-: ENE-WSW 67m, ESE-WNW 48.3m, H 1.8m) is built of undressed mortared stone. A collapsed entrance (Wth c. 1.1m) lies at ENE. There are two opposing circular turrets (D c. 2.5m) in E and W angles; that at E is best preserved and is two storeys high; five gun loops survive on both floors. A garderobe chute is visible beside it in SE wall. Five gun loops are also evident in W turret. Centrally placed within the interior are the remains of a rectangular house (GA057-067003-: NNE-SSE; L 12.2m, Wth 5.9m ext.), and near N corner the grassed-over foundation lines of associated rectangular outbuildings (GA057-067004-). The monument is surrounded by an extensive field system (GA057-067002-). (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 162; Harbison 1975, 88)
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: 1 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.