Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Caherlissakill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherlissakill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherlissakill
- Coordinates
- 53.37938, -8.73883
- SMR number
- GA071-014----
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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
In grassland. Subcircular cashel (E-W 40m, N-S 35.5m), in fair condition, defined by an inner drystone wall, a berm, an earthen bank, a fosse, a berm and a poorly preserved outer drystone wall. The latter is cut by a field wall at W, and all the enclosing elements have been partially destroyed at SE and SW. A gap at SE, although modern, may have given original access. In SW sector of the interior is a souterrain (GA071-014001-). There is also a small circular earthwork (D 9m) c. 5m NE of the cashel. Defined by a grassed-over stony bank, it has traces of an internal subdivision: possibly a house.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.