Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
An Laigheachán, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Laigheachán
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31304, -8.93097
- SMR number
- GA083-056----
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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 level pastureland. When inspected in March 1992, this very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 43m) was defined by the remains of double-faced drystone wall which survived in varying degrees from NNE through E to SSW and was densely overgrown from NE to S. From NNE to NE only the line of the inner and outer facing stones survived. From NE to SSW it was delimited by a collapsed grassed-over line of rubble and occasional boulders. No visible surface trace survived fro SSW to NNE. A later field wall overlay the cashel wall from ENE to ESE and an E-W running wall (L 15m) abutted it at E. Some 6m to the S of the latter wall, traces of a grassed-over collapsed wall (L c. 20m) were visible running parallel to it. The current OSI digitalglobe aerial photograph indicates that the monument has since been levelled.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.