Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caherglassaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherglassaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11512, -8.88875
- SMR number
- GA113-060----
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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
On the summit of a low hill in tillage. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 38m) defined by a bank and external fosse. Traces of an inner stone revetment are visible intermittently. There is a stone-lined causewayed entrance gap (Wth c. 2.5m) at S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.