Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrigeen West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21985, -8.78081
- SMR number
- GA104-093----
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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 scrubland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 223, no. 3) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 32m) defined by a drystone wall which was ‘ruined to the foundations’. The monument is overgrown and field-clearance rubble has been piled around it. The enclosing element is indicated by a very low overgrown stony bank.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.