Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carheennascovoge, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carheennascovoge
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26579, -8.75889
- SMR number
- GA096-046----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. An oval cashel (22m E-W; 18.3m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. (Redington 1916, 56a; Westropp 1919, 181; McCaffrey 1952, 153, no. 26)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 January 2017
References
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.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Westropp, T.J. 1919a Notes on several forts in Dunkellin and other parts of southern Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 167-86.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.