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Ringfort - cashel

Cahercon, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cahercon, 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
Cahercon
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.11783, -8.91747
SMR number
GA113-051----

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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 rough pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly subcircular hachured enclosure (c. 28m E-W; c. 25m N-S). On inspection a roughly D-shaped enclosure with a straight N side (L 25m) was noted. It was defined by a drystone field wall (Wth 0.75m) that had collapsed in places. It may mirror the line of the earlier enclosure. There is a children’s burial ground (GA113-051001-) in the interior.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 3 August 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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