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Ringfort - cashel

Funshin Beg, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Funshin Beg, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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