Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castletaylor South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletaylor South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17449, -8.80389
- SMR number
- GA104-281----
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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 grassland, formerly within Castletaylor Demesne. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (42m N-S; 32m E-W) defined at W by a low spread of rubble with intermittent traces of the outer wall-face. Elsewhere a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. A children's burial ground (GA104-282----) is associated. A low foundation line of boulders and rubble, aligned E-W, is visible in the interior at W. It may be an internal division.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.