Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Cloghboley, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghboley
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16675, -8.86403
- SMR number
- GA113-094005-
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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
Within the interior of the cashel (GA113-094----). The foundations of four rectangular houses are traceable -House 1: GA113-094002- in the NW quadrant overlies the NE part of the souterrain (GA113-094001-). It consists of the well-defined foundations of double-faced stone walls (6m by 4m); House 2: GA113-094003- abuts the cashel wall at NE and consists of the poorly preserved remains of a possible two-roomed house (8m by 5m); House 3: GA113-094004- in the SE quadrant is to the N of the cashel entrance; the poorly preserved foundations of the N and W walls of a house of indeterminate size, which is overlain by a modern wall, survive; House 4: GA113-094005- in the S sector of the interior consists a low platform defined by a wall of large blocks (6m by 2.5m overall). (McCaffrey 1952, 268, no. 5)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.