Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrownamorrissy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownamorrissy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25277, -8.67277
- SMR number
- GA096-048----
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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 rise in pastureland. Roughly oval cashel (54.7m E-W; c. 50m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall overlain throughout by a later field wall. There is an entrance gap at SSW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.