Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Saintclerans, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saintclerans
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23039, -8.65574
- SMR number
- GA097-144----
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
In rolling grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 26.7m) defined by a low drystone wall
which is best preserved at S (Wth 1.55m; H 0.5m); elsewhere it survives as a grassed-over stony bank. Field-clearance rubble has been piled against the enclosing element at E and W and hawthorn bushes are growing around its perimeter. (McCaffrey 1952, 171, no. 32; Waddell 1977, 62)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 April 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Waddell, J. 1977 Some archaeological material in University College Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 36, 56-69.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.