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Ringfort - cashel

Killeeneen Beg, County Galway, Ireland

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Townland
Killeeneen Beg
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.23265, -8.79721
SMR number
GA096-115----

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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 pastureland. Noted by Redington (1916a, 53) and described as 'the foundations' of 'small caher' which lay 'across a bohereen' immediately to the W of another cashel (GA096-114----). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 159, no. 71b) as an oval 'Stone fort' with an 'overall diameter of 92' [28m] x 56' [17m]. The enclosing wall was '6' [1.8m] wide and 1' [0.3m] high' and was 'composed of two faces of blocks set on edge' on the N side. Only one face of blocks was evident elsewhere and the site was 'extremely ruinous'. No visible surface trace survives.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 8 January 2018

References

Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.

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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

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