Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Derryhoyle More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryhoyle More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21994, -8.68796
- SMR number
- GA104-132----
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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
In reclaimed pastureland. Known locally as a ‘lios’, this very poorly preserved and much-collapsed roughly oval cashel (c. 35m N-S; c. 30m WNW-ENE) is obscured throughout by overgrowth. A children's burial ground (GA104-132001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.