Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Greethill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greethill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27183, -8.79503
- SMR number
- GA096-108----
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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 hillock in undulating pastureland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 41m) is defined by a drystone wall from N through E to S; it is obscured by overgrowth. A field wall cuts across the monument at N and S, and to the W of this no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives. (Cody 1989, 261-2, no. 85)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
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