Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rinville West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinville West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25428, -8.94098
- SMR number
- GA095-135----
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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 undulating pastureland. Circular cashel (diam. 39m), in fair condition, defined by a
drystone wall (Wth 1.9m; max. ext. H 0.8m) best preserved from SE through S to NW. It is overgrown from NW to N to SE. A souterrain (GA095-135001-) is associated (Lynch Athy 1914, 137).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Lynch Athy, M. 1914 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the Barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway: IV - Oranmore Parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 129-98.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.