Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caherroyn, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherroyn
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherroyn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30473, -8.74306
- SMR number
- GA084-034----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives; probably levelled during the construction of the Galway-Dublin railway line which crosses it from roughly NE to SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.