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Ringfort - cashel

Castletaylor North, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Castletaylor North, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castletaylor North
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.18003, -8.79940
SMR number
GA104-103----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rolling pastureland. This circular cashel (diam. 32.7m), in fair condition, is defined by a drystone wall on top of which field-clearance rubble has been piled. A stile has been built into the wall at SW, possibly to give access to a children's burial ground (GA104-103001-) in the interior. Another cashel (GA104-101----) lies c. 150m to the NW. (McCaffrey 1952, 224, no. 128)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 24 November 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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