Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Greethill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greethill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27202, -8.80137
- SMR number
- GA096-107----
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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 S-facing slope with pastureland to the N and scrub and rock outcrop to the S. This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (26.5m E-W; 23m N-S) is defined by a collapsed drystone wall, now reduced to a grassed-over stony bank, which is overlain by a later field wall from N to E. The enclosing element is obscured at SW by a large concrete water tank and is breached by tractor gaps at W and NE. An opening (1m by 0.6m), the purpose of which is unclear, in the SW
quadrant of the interior is filled with loose stones (Cody 1989, 258-9, no. 83). The interior is used as a cattle-feeding station.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2018
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.