Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Roo (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roo (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21144, -8.72282
- SMR number
- GA104-260----
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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 undulating pastureland, overlooking a turlough to the S. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 249, no. 16b)
as an oval ‘Stone fort’ (37.2m N-S; 26.2m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone and a silted narrow external fosse. When inspected in December 1982 the monument was poorly preserved and the enclosing bank appeared to be more rectangular in plan. No trace of the fosse was evident. On re-inspection in October 2001 double-wall facing was evident at ESE suggesting that this was a cashel. Deep tractor ruts ran E-W just inside the N limits of the site. A possible hut site (GA104-261----) lies c. 25m to the S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 June 2019
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.