Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Clamperpark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clamperpark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27662, -8.74337
- SMR number
- GA096-060----
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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 rolling grassland. Subcircular cashel (39.3m NE-SW; 36.3m NW-SE), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. Land-clearance operations have damaged the monument at SE and SW. A possible souterrain (GA096-060001-) is associated. (Westropp 1919, 181; Cody 1989, 247-8, no. 75).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.