Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castlelambert, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlelambert
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30788, -8.81477
- SMR number
- GA083-029----
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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
On an E-facing slope in former demesne land. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a roughly subcircular tree-planted enclosure (c. 55m by c. 45m) delimited by a solid line. Described in 1980 as 'a roughly circular monument, very poorly preserved, outlined by remains of a very low broken down wall. … [It] measures approx. 38m N.W.-S.E. … On East, N.E. & S.E. the wall is set on a low scarp while there is a shallow fosse outside on North, West & S.W.' (Topgr. Files, OPW). No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.