Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Caherapheepa, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherapheepa
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21909, -8.81019
- SMR number
- GA104-074003-
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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
Within a cashel (GA104-074001-) named 'Caherapheepa'. According to Redington (1916a, 52), 'the garth was once used as a graveyard and when afterwards it was cultivated, numbers of pipes were dug up. Placing pipes on graves was a well-known custom and Redington suggests that the name of the cashel may have originated from this custom. No visible surface trace of the graveyard survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 218-19, no. 1a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
References
Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.