Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caheraloggy East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caheraloggy East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20731, -8.79635
- SMR number
- GA104-070----
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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 level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 218, no. 57) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 33m) but described as a cashel, the enclosing wall (Wth 3m; H 0.8m) of which partially destroyed at SE. The 'fort' was further obscured by field rubble. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.