Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockdoebeg West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdoebeg West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38044, -8.90558
- SMR number
- GA070-104----
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 a N-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved oval cashel (E-W 51m, N-S 35m) defined by a drystone wall. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and SE. Gaps at W and SSE appear modern. Abutting the monument at W is a poorly preserved rectangular house (E-W; L 8m, Wth 5m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall. Two structures of similar construction and dimensions lie c. 25m to W. A ringfort (GA070-105----) lies c. 230m to NNE.
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
The following image has been uploaded: GA070-104----_01.jpg
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.