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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27335, -8.76949
- SMR number
- GA096-056----
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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 low rise in level pastureland. Described by Cody (1989, 243-4, no. 71) as a circular cashel(diam. 25m) defined by a drystone wall. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing element at E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.