Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cahercormick,glebe (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercormick,glebe (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24440, -8.67274
- SMR number
- GA096-028----
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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 mixed farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). On the 1933 map edition it is more irregular in plan (c. 70m N-S; c. 40m E-W) and the NE sector is occupied by farm buildings. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 151, no. 46) as a ‘much destroyed’ oval ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 73m N-S; c. 26m E-W). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.