Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherbulligin,killeeneen More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherbulligin,killeeneen More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisduff
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisduff
- Coordinates
- 53.24186, -8.80319
- SMR number
- GA096-027----
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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 an area of pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 38m) defined by a drystone wall obscured by field-clearance rubble and dense overgrowth. A field wall cuts across the monument at N and S. (Redington 1916a, 55; McCaffrey 1952, 160, no. 53)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 January 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.