Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherapheepa,fahymactibbot, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherapheepa,fahymactibbot
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherapheepa
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherapheepa
- Coordinates
- 53.21909, -8.81019
- SMR number
- GA104-074001-
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 reclaimed pastureland overlooking a turlough to the E. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 218-19, no. 1a) as a ‘Stone fort’ (diam. 49.4m overall) defined by two concentric drystone walls. An internal wall ran N-S through the interior. The monument has been almost completely cleared as a result of field-clearance operations and only a section at NE now survives. Both walls are in a collapsed state and lie c. 7m apart. There is a souterrain (GA104-074002-) in the N half of the interior. According to Redington (1916a, 52), the interior was once used as a graveyard (GA104-074003-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.