Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Mulroog West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mulroog West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18064, -8.94064
- SMR number
- GA103-150----
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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 undulating reclaimed pastureland. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (38m N-S) defined by a wall (Wth 2.5m; base Wth, including field-clearance material, 8.9m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.5m) that is obscured by field-clearance rubble which has been piled against its external wall-face. Due to dense overgrowth the entire perimeter of the monument was not visible or accessible. Two roughly N-S running field walls bisect the monument at NNW and SSW, and at NNE and E. There is a children’s burial ground (GA103-150001-) in the E sector of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 200, no. 113)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.