Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Garracloon South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garracloon South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24096, -8.71364
- SMR number
- GA096-098----
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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 gently rolling pastureland. Poorly preserved oval cashel (34.5m NE-SW; 30.4m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall much obscured by overgrowth. A children's burial ground (GA096-098----) lies within the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 158, no. 61)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.