Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahercrea East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercrea East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnahattina
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnahattina
- Coordinates
- 53.17538, -8.59601
- SMR number
- GA105-034----
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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 low-lying pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Apart from a very slight dip in the field surface, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.