Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carraghadoo, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carraghadoo
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherrory
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherrory
- Coordinates
- 53.18908, -8.86855
- SMR number
- GA103-092----
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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 reclaimed farmland. A well-preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. c. 35m) defined by a drystone wall. A gap at NW is modern. There is a souterrain (GA103-092001-) in the WSW sector of the interior and some grassed-over foundation lines are evident at S and in the centre of it. Those at S may indicate one of two internal ‘enclosures’ noted by McCaffrey (1952, 190, no. 60) against the cashel wall at S and E. A house site (GA103-093----) lies c. 80m to the SW. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 317)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.