Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherweelder, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherweelder
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherweelder
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherweelder
- Coordinates
- 53.19392, -8.82000
- SMR number
- GA103-086001-
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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 rough grazing land. Well-preserved circular cashel (diam. 38m) defined by a drystone wall. The original entrance gap appears to have been at SSE; it has been enlarged to accommodate a gate. At NNW the cashel wall has been incorporated into a later solid stone structure (GA103-086002-) which may have acted as a lookout or may be a folly. It is marked and named ‘Tower’ on 3rd ed. of OS map (1933). (Westropp 1919, 178; McCaffrey 1952, 189, no. 77)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Westropp, T.J. 1919a Notes on several forts in Dunkellin and other parts of southern Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 167-86.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.