Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Mulroog East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mulroog East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18368, -8.93450
- SMR number
- GA103-148----
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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. This cashel (diam. 29.2m) was described by McCaffrey (1952, 200, no. 111) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ defined by a wall (Wth 1.8m; H 0.5m) composed of 'two faces of blocks set on edge'. Field-clearance rubble has been packed against the external wall-face. A possible house site (GA103-148001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.