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
- 53.38207, -8.90314
- SMR number
- GA070-105----
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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
Some 230m NNE of a ringfort (GA070-104----). Very poorly preserved overgrown oval cashel (E-W 45m, N-S 32m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall. A field wall cuts the monument at NNE and SSW. A children's burial ground (GA070-105001-) is visible in the NE quadrant of the interior and there is a house site (GA070-105002-) in the heavily overgrown NW quadrant.
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).
The following image has been uploaded: GA070-105-----01.jpg
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 10 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.