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
- 53.19547, -8.86721
- SMR number
- GA103-076----
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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 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.