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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17907, -8.93625
- SMR number
- GA103-156----
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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
On a N-facing slope in improved pastureland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 16.8m) is defined by a much-collapsed grassed-over drystone wall (Wth 2.1m; base Wth 7.2m; int. H 0.92m; ext. H 1.14m). A field boundary, running N-S, cuts through WNW sector of the monument.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.