Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockakilleen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockakilleen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16733, -8.99386
- SMR number
- GA102-034----
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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 level grassland. Subcircular cashel (diam. c. 30m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall
(H 1.5m; Wth 1.3m) from ENE through S to WNW. A field wall cuts across it from ENE to WNW and no visible surface trace survives to the N of it. The lower courses of wall are constructed of massive regular limestone blocks. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the external wall-face at S and internally it appears that the wall was widened to 3.5m as an inner line of wall-facing is visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.