Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowclogh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowclogh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19988, -8.65112
- SMR number
- GA105-054001-
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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 low hill. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 254-5, no. 14) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 33m), which was bisected from N to S by a field wall. Within the W half of the interior was a house site (GA105-054003-). Apart from a grassed-over stony bank curving from ENE to SSE, no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives. Another field wall, running WNW-ESE, cuts the monument at ENE. There is a field system (GA105-054002-) immediately to the E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2017
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.