Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caherpeak West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherpeak West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18742, -8.85073
- SMR number
- GA103-080----
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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 S-facing slope overlooking Tullaghnafrankagh Lough. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS map (1933) as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 188, no. 62) as an ‘Earthen fort’ which was ‘ploughed out’. Apart from a very slight rise in the field surface at NE and SW, no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Milestoneunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.