Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cahertinny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahertinny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22325, -8.62329
- SMR number
- GA105-048----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 meadowland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an irregular field (c. 32m E-W; c. 27m N-S) with a roadway running around it from W to NE. On the 1929 revision it is shown as a field boundary curving from SSE through W to NNE and open on the E side. According to local information, there was a 'small fort' here. No visible surface traces survives. The interior is now occupied by a silage pit.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.