Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Killaguile, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaguile
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39069, -9.28363
- SMR number
- GA067-016----
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
On W slope of a ridge to SE of Carrowndulla Lough. Poorly preserved rectangular cashel (L 23.8m; Wth 22m) defined by a much-collapsed grassed-over drystone wall. Possible entrance at SSW. Abutting the inner face of the wall at W is a rectangular house (L 10.9m, Wth 7.8m).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.