Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Grange (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnaskeha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnaskeha
- Coordinates
- 53.17735, -8.57564
- SMR number
- GA105-109----
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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 flat pastureland, c. 400m to the S of Lough Rea. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); on the 1929 resurvey it is indicated by a line of hachures from SSW through W to N and is more subrectangular in plan. No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence and name suggest it was a ringfort, possibly a cashel.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.