Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carnaun (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnaun (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.33068, -8.77833
- SMR number
- GA084-041----
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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 a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. This large subcircular cashel (76m N-S; 68m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall. Traces of a shallow external fosse are visible at NW. Either of two gaps (Wth 1.5m; 2m) at SE could be the original entrance (Cody 1989, 240, no. 68). The grassed-over foundation lines of a small rectangular building/house site (GA084-041002-) are visible in the NW quadrant of the interior. A children’s burial ground (GA084-041001-) occupies most of the NE quadrant and it overlies the NE corner of the house. There is a low natural flat-topped mound (diam. c. 15m) to NE of centre (ibid.). Some internal divisions are also evident. Abutting the cashel wall at SE is a rectangular area (L 25m; Wth 15m) defined by old field banks. Within it are the remains of another rectangular building (L 7m; Wth 4m) aligned E-W. This appears to be the remains of the roofed building shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 January 2017
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.