Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cahernashilleeny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernashilleeny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.35852, -8.89529
- SMR number
- GA070-017----
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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 a gentle E-facing slope in grassland. Very poorly preserved conjoined ringfort. The N rath (E-W 42m, N-S 37m), subcircular in plan, is defined by a degraded bank. The S example (E-W 51, N-S 48m), also subcircular in plan, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Traces of the inner bank and fosse are visible from SW through W to NW. The outer bank survives from SE through S to W. A field bank cuts the monument at SE and SW.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.