Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowkeel (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26641, -8.61510
- SMR number
- GA097-068001-
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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
Within a field system (GA097-068003-). Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (32m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall; traces of the inner and outer wall-facing survive intermittently. A souterrain (GA097-068002-) lies c. 60m to the E and another cashel lies (GA097-068004-) c. 80m to the SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.