Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Coorbaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coorbaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22893, -8.55690
- SMR number
- GA097-088----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 undulating grassland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 40m)
defined by a grassed-over wall. A field wall cuts through the enclosing element at WNW and WSW. There is a souterrain (GA097-088001-) in the W sector of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.