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
- 53.19355, -8.84438
- SMR number
- GA103-068----
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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 reclaimed pastureland. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 34m) defined by a
grassed-over collapsed drystone wall, against which field-clearance rubble has been piled at SE. A field boundary overlies the cashel wall at W; another cuts across the monument from NE to SW. Possible internal divisions are visible to N and S of this wall. (McCaffrey 1952, 187, no. 52)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.