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Ringfort - cashel

Caherpeak East, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherpeak East, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Caherpeak East
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Caherawullaun
Latest-edition OS map
Caherawullaun
Coordinates
53.19722, -8.85625
SMR number
GA103-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In level farmland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (diam. 28m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall. Traces of inner stone-facing are visible at S. The interior is divided by two grassed-over stone walls, one runs from E to W and the other extends off it to N. Centrally placed is a souterrain (GA103-062001-). (Knox and Redington 1916, 184; McCaffrey 1952, 185, no. 46)

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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Knox, H.T. and Redington, M. 1915-16 Some rath-caves in and near the barony of Dunkellin. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 178-90.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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