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Ringfort - cashel

Caherdaly, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherdaly, 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
Caherdaly
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.15865, -8.82834
SMR number
GA113-056----

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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 rock outcrop. Subcircular cashel (34m E-W; 30.4m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall; evidence of stone-facing survives intermittently. Gaps at NE and SE are modern. An internal dividing wall runs N-S through the interior. The foundations of two house sites are visible to E of it: (a) to N (L 5.3m; Wth 4.8m) is free-standing, (b) to S (L 6m; Wth 4m) partially overlies the cashel wall; both are probably modern (SMR file). (McCaffrey 1952, 266, no. 14)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 11 January 2017

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1983).

References

McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Nearby in the register

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

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