Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Moycola, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moycola
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20709, -8.67043
- SMR number
- GA104-214----
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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 level pastureland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 25.5m) is defined by a drystone wall (max. Wth 3.2m including slippage; H 0.7m). Some field-clearance material has been piled against the cashel wall. A NW-SE field wall runs immediately to its NE. Moycola Castle (GA104-215----) lies c. 110m to the SSW. (McCaffrey 1952, 243, no. 49)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.