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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23306, -8.63386
- SMR number
- GA097-062----
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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 gentle N-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 27.8m) defined by a drystone wall. A field wall cuts through it at N and SE and no visible surface trace of the
enclosing element survives to the E of it. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at SW which splays out towards the exterior. A grassed-over stony bank, running E-W, in the centre of the interior, may be the remains of an internal division. A possible souterrain (GA097-062001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.