Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cill Ráine, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Ráine
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34302, -9.17937
- SMR number
- GA068-026----
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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
At the head of a small valley surrounded by slightly higher ground from N to SW. Lower ground slopes off to the W and NW. This roughly subcircular cashel (int. dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S) is defined by a collapsed rubble spread (int. H 0.3-1m; overall Wth of spread 5.7m; Wth of top of wall c. 1.5m-3.8m; ext H 1.2m). No obvious wall-facing is evident and most of the collapse occurs on the external face. There is no obvious entrance gap. The interior is uneven and overgrown - numerous tree stumps are evident. A raised area demarked by a possible internal dividing wall is evident in the W half of the site - the wall is defined by a grassed-over stony spread. The raised area is c. 1m above the E half of the site and 0.5m above the N sector. The cashel is completely overgrown with bramble, briars, hazel, and ferns. It is within a mature tree plantation and the trees immediately around and within the site have recently been felled.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 August 2017
The following images have been appended:
GA068-026----_01.jpg
GA068-026----_02.jpg
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Townunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.