Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Garraun South (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun South (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28174, -8.94466
- SMR number
- GA095-157001-
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
Within the N sector of a field system (GA095-157002-). Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 27m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall. A gap (Wth 1.8m) at E, flanked by large limestone blocks, appears to be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.