Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cartron (Drumacoo ED ), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (Drumacoo ED )
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathgall
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathgall
- Coordinates
- 53.18857, -8.89956
- SMR number
- GA103-099----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rock outcrop. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (24.2m NNW-SSE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall; traces of inner and outer wall-facing survive at SE and S. (McCaffrey 1952, 191, no. 100)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.