Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahergal (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahergal (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19483, -8.70736
- SMR number
- GA104-078----
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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 rise in undulating pastureland. A poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 24.4m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field wall from E through S to W. McCaffrey (1952, 219, no. 77) noted an entrance gap (Wth c. 2.4m) at N, and four internal enclosures (average dims. 8m x 6m), defined by earth and stone banks, which abutted the cashel wall-face at NE, SE and two at W. Those at W are the remains of a house (GA104-078001-) but no visible surface traces of the others survive.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 January 2017
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Memorial stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.