Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowbaun (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbaun (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23362, -8.62921
- SMR number
- GA097-061001-
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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 rise in an area of rock outcrop and grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular cashel (30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a drystone wall of which only intermittent foundation stones survive. A gap (Wth 1.6m) flanked by two upright stones at SW is probably the original entrance. There is a souterrain (GA097-061003-) in the SW quadrant of the interior and another possible souterrain (GA097-061004-) in the SE quadrant. In the N sector are traces of a grassed-over house site (GA097-061005-). A wire fence cuts across the monument at NNW and SSW. An earthwork (GA097-061002-) lay c. 20m to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.