Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloghalahard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghalahard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24081, -8.86331
- SMR number
- GA095-015----
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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 grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. There is a souterrain (GA095-015001-) immediately to the E. (Redington 1912, 171)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
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.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.