Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glebe (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24604, -8.66957
- SMR number
- GA096-103----
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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 recently cleared farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 158, no. 45) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 38m) defined by a drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.