Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Corbaun,kilcooly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbaun,kilcooly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18978, -8.44345
- SMR number
- GA106-055----
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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 a low ridge in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 35m defined by a much-collapsed grassed-over drystone wall. A road cuts through the monument at NNE and SSW and to NW of it the enclosing element only survives intermittently.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.