Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Corrafaireen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrafaireen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40268, -8.73805
- SMR number
- GA058-089----
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
Within a settlement cluster (GA058-088----). Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 48m, N-S 44m) defined by a drystone wall. A number of modern gaps occur, but that at S (Wth 3m) appears to be original. Several houses, associated with the settlement cluster, lie within the monument, some abutting the inner face of the enclosing wall, and one at NE actually straddling it. (ASGAP 385:32)
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.