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Ringfort - cashel

Caherpeak West, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherpeak West, 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 West
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Raheen Forts
Latest-edition OS map
Raheen Forts
Coordinates
53.19547, -8.86721
SMR number
GA103-076----

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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 scrubland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 36.2m) defined by two collapsed drystone
walls. A laneway cuts through the monument at N and S. The inner wall is best preserved from N to SSE; some outer wall-facing is evident from N to E. No visible surface trace survives from SE to WSW and a field wall overlies it from SSW to WSW. The outer wall only survives from N to E. A field wall cuts through the interior at E. (McCaffrey 1952, 187, no. 54)

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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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

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

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