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
- Cahergorman
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahergorman
- Coordinates
- 53.19254, -8.86069
- SMR number
- GA103-078----
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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 gentle rise in grazing land. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 38.4m) defined by a
collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field boundary at E. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible intermittently. A field boundary cuts across the monument at and S and field clearance-rubble obscures the enclosing element at N. A ouse site (GA103-079----) lies c. 60m to the (McCaffrey 1952, 188, no. 57)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.