Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cartron (ballintemple Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (ballintemple Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27792, -8.95186
- SMR number
- GA095-012----
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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 the summit of a rocky hillock in grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 38m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain throughout by a field wall.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.