Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

On a slight rise in recently cleared scrubland. When initially visited by the Survey in December 1982, this fairly well-preserved circular cashel (diam. 38.2m) was defined by a drystone wall. Within NW quadrant of the interior lay a rectangular house site (GA095-001003-). Traces of internal dividing walls were evident at E and W. McCaffrey (1952, 125, no. 50) noted another rectangular structure (GA095-001004-) abutting the cashel wall at S as well as a semicircular wall (L c. 40m) immediately to the E of the cashel. This wall partly enclosed a ‘souterrain’ (GA095-001002-) and a ‘house site’ (GA095-001005-). Another ‘house site’ (GA095-001006-) was visible c. 15m to N of the wall. No visible surface trace of these features was noted. The cashel was bulldozed in 1991. (Redington 1912a, 172; Topgr. Files, National Monuments Service)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 12 October 2016

References

Redington, M. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin; ii Stradbally parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 171-183.

McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.