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Ringfort - cashel

Lakyle, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Lakyle, 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
Lakyle
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.18557, -8.71108
SMR number
GA104-162----

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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 pastureland overlooking Lough Kinlea to the S. Marked on the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular hachured enclosure (c. 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W). On the 1933 edition rock outcrop is depicted in the interior. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 234, no. 82a) as a 'very ruinous ... Earthen fort'. When inspected in February 1983 a roughly circular area of earth and boulders was visible but most of this material appeared to be clearance from the neighbouring field walls completing obscuring the monument. On a revisit in October 2001 the condition of the monument was still the same. It is possible that this is a cashel considering that it is located in an area of outcropping rock. Another cashel (GA104-161----) lies c. 110m to the NE.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 11 January 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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