Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherpeak East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherpeak East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19801, -8.85555
- SMR number
- GA103-061----
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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. Poorly preserved D-shaped cashel (32m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall best preserved from SE to S. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE. Field-clearance rubble has been piled against the outer wall-face at SSW. (McCaffrey 1952, 186, no. 46a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.