Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherbulligin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherbulligin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24562, -8.79586
- SMR number
- GA096-023----
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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 level pastureland. Known locally as ‘Cave-Fort’ (Redington 1916a, 55) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 150, no. 48) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 43.3m) defined by a drystone wall with an entrance gap (Wth c. 1.5m) at N. No visible surface trace of the cashel wall survives but its outline is preserved in a later curving field wall. A souterrain (GA096-023001-) lies in the NE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.