Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Tooreen West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16851, -8.92551
- SMR number
- GA103-188----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low-lying reclaimed pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 206, no. 117) as a circular
‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 40m ext.) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m) that was obscured by bushes. Due to what appeared to be field-clearance rubble and dense overgrowth it was not possible to see any trace of the monument on the day of inspection. A souterrain (GA103-188001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.