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
- Lisheenapreaghaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenapreaghaun
- Coordinates
- 53.17699, -8.94554
- SMR number
- GA103-152----
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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 pastureland, c. 150m to the NE of the shores of Galway Bay. Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 200) as a ‘Stone fort (?)’ which was obscured by field rubble. According to local information, a possible souterrain (GA103-152001-) is associated. The monument was levelled during land reclamation in the 1950s and no visible surface trace survives.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.