Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherpeak West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherpeak West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Raheen Forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Raheen Forts
- Coordinates
- 53.19538, -8.86895
- SMR number
- GA103-075----
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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
On a slight rise in scrubland. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 15.5m) defined by a drystone wall from NNW through E to SW; elsewhere field-clearance rubble obscures the enclosing element. A field boundary cuts the monument at NW and WSW and another extends
from it and cuts it at SE. (McCaffrey 1952, 187-8, no. 55)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.