Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kiltiernan East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltiernan East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17743, -8.83503
- SMR number
- GA103-142----
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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. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 30m) defined by a
collapsed drystone wall; traces of the inner wall-facing survive at ESE. A field boundary cuts through the monument at NW and SE. There is a souterrain (GA103-142001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 199, no. 66)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2018
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.