Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cartron (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19847, -8.67958
- SMR number
- GA104-100002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 224, no. 55a) as a circular 'Stone fort' (diam. c. 39m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. There was a souterrain (GA104-100003-) within the interior and a rectangular house site (GA104-100004-) immediately outside it, to its E (ibid.). No visible surface traces survive. A round house (GA104-100001-) lay c. 60m to N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 April 2018
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.