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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24238, -8.92436
- SMR number
- GA095-019002-
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
In gently undulating pastureland. Holt (1912, 226, no. 42) refers to 'a souterrain [GA095-019001-], under a bush near the roadside, with some traces of the foundations of a caher wall'. According to the landowner, the field was cleared of rock in the 1950s during land reclamation. While he did not recall the 'stone fort', the souterrain was filled in and covered with rubble at that time. Its site is marked by some clearance rubble around the base of an elder bush. No visible
surface trace of the cashel survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.