Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Killeeneen Beg,killeeneen More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeeneen Beg,killeeneen More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22697, -8.79432
- SMR number
- GA096-116----
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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. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 159, no. 88a) as ‘Stone fort (?)’ and described as ‘a segment of [an] earthen and stone wall’ (L c. 9m), ‘sited on a small hill called “Knockaunalaghta”’ Possibly the remains of a cashel. No visible surface trace survives but its faint outline is visible on the OSi Ortho_ITM aerial photograph. (Redington 1916, 53)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.