Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Seefin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seefin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20482, -8.68872
- SMR number
- GA104-269----
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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
On the summit of a hill in grassland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 44m) is defined by a robbed-out drystone wall; apart from a few external facing-stones, little of the wall survives. It is likely that material from it was subsequently reused in the construction of the Daly monument, which occupies a large area of the NE quadrant of the interior. This monument commemorates the hanging of a man in 1820. Traces of a possible house site (GA104-269002-) are visible to its E as well as the access point to a souterrain (GA104-269001-). (Holt 1910, 154-5; McCaffrey 1952, 250, no. 45)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 April 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.