Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Crannagh (kiltartan Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crannagh (kiltartan Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11069, -8.86152
- SMR number
- GA113-104----
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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 E edge of a ridge in pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (27m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A cattle byre has been built in the interior. Abutting the cashel wall at NNE is an annexe (13.5m E-W ;12.5m N-S).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.