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Ringfort - cashel

Derryhoyle More, County Galway, Ireland

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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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David 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).

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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

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

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