Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Newcastle (rahoon Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle (rahoon Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28975, -9.06771
- SMR number
- GA082-071----
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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
In rough grazing and scrubland overlooking Lough Corrib to E. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 25m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a modern field wall at W. Possible entrance at E. The interior contains a poorly defined D-shaped stone structure, possibly a hut.
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
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.