Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carna, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carna
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32862, -9.79522
- SMR number
- GA077-005----
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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
Amongst a small group of islets in NW portion of Loch na Scainimhe. A circular, rocky island (E-W 18.5m; N-S 17m) known locally as An Chraoibhín. Defined by a drystone wall which incorporates a massive split granite boulder at E. The wall rises to a maximum height of 1.5m at N. The interior, which is uneven and overgrown, rises towards the centre. (Layard 1897, 376-7; Robinson 1985, 15)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.