Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Funshin Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Funshin Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12100, -8.97433
- SMR number
- GA112-016----
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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 reclaimed grassland and rock outcrop. This subrectangular cashel (33.6m N-S; 30.5m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a drystone wall which is overlain by a field wall at W and on the N side. Field-clearance material has been piled against it at NE and S. There is a well-defined entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE. Within the interior two possible house sites (GA112-016001- and GA112-016002-) abut the cashel wall at N and S. Two other structures abut the wall in SW quadrant, one is rectangular in plan (8.6m N-S; 4.5m E-W), the other square (5m N-S; 5m E-W). A number of internal divisions are also evident and traces of a possible limekiln are visible at SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.