Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cregganna Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregganna Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caheracullin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caheracullin
- Coordinates
- 53.24407, -8.92669
- SMR number
- GA095-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise in rocky scrubland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 32m) defined by a collapsed
drystone wall overlain by a later field wall. A field wall cuts across the monument from E to W. There is a souterrain (GA095-017001-) in the interior (Holt 1912, 226, no. 41). (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 300; McCaffrey 1952, 128, no. 28)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.