Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherapheepa, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherapheepa
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherbeg
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherbeg
- Coordinates
- 53.21776, -8.81764
- SMR number
- GA103-054----
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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 farmland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (diam. c. 27m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, which is overlain from W to N by a field boundary. Redington (1916a, 52) refers to internal divisions within the interior but due to dense overgrowth they were not discernible. (McCaffrey 1952, 185, no. 92)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
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- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.