Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Keamsellagh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keamsellagh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17270, -8.84942
- SMR number
- GA103-124----
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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 level reclaimed farmland. Described by the landowner as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a drystone wall. Apart from slight traces of the wall foundations at S, which are overlain by a later field wall, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Milestoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.