Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloghboley, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghboley
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16434, -8.86180
- SMR number
- GA113-095----
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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
In an area of outcropping rock. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 24m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A circular stone structure (diam. 4.5m) in the E sector of the interior may be the remains of a house site (GA113-095001-). A drystone-built structure at W and another outside the cashel wall at SE are possibly later features. (McCaffrey 1952, 269, no. 6)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 November 2017
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.