Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castleturvin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleturvin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27403, -8.75409
- SMR number
- GA096-050----
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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 scrubland. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 30.3m) defined by a drystone wall. A field wall cuts across the monument in the SE sector and another overlies it at SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.