Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cappagh (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.33783, -8.35281
- SMR number
- GA074-019----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 38m, E-W 35m) defined by two stone-faced earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives from NW through E to SE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank is overlain by a field wall throughout and does not survive from ENE to ESE. A gap (Wth 6m) at S may be original. There is a possible souterrain (GA074-019001-) within the interior.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.