Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherphuca, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherphuca
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Circles
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circles
- Coordinates
- 53.41984, -8.78265
- SMR number
- GA058-044----
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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
In undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as two conjoined circles defined by a line of open dots and labelled 'Stone Circles'. The remains are those of a very poorly preserved conjoined cashel. The NE cashel (NW-SE 55m, NE-SW 34m), oval in plan, is defined by a grassed-over collapsed drystone wall. A number of gaps are present but none appear original. The SW example (D 69m), originally circular in plan, is also defined by a drystone wall but now survives only from SE through W to N. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible intermittently. There is a possible sheep pen in the interior.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.