Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowrevagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowrevagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25358, -8.65731
- SMR number
- GA097-073----
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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 gently rolling pastureland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (33.7m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall best preserved at SE. At N two orthostats, 0.7m apart, may mark the original entrance gap. A field wall cuts through the enclosing element at
W. (McCaffrey 1952, 167, no. 15)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.