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Ringfort - cashel

Cill Ráine, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cill Ráine, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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