Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castletaylor North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletaylor North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18122, -8.80067
- SMR number
- GA104-101----
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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 S-facing slope in pastureland. Very poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 23.7m) defined by a drystone wall, which is obscured by field-clearance rubble, from N through E to SW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Another cashel (GA104-103----) lies 150m to the SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.