Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caherateige, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherateige
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16466, -8.81817
- SMR number
- GA113-030003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Abutting a cashel (GA113-030001-) at N. This small circular enclosure (diam. 12m) is defined by a double-faced drystone wall. Within the interior at NW is a small oval enclosure (4m N-S; 3m E-W) also defined by a drystone wall; it may be the remains of a house site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.