Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Drumharsna South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumharsna South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14242, -8.86227
- SMR number
- GA113-112----
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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 W-facing slope of a ridge in mixed farmland. When initially visited by the Survey in October 1982 this poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 38m) was defined by a drystone wall, which was overlain by a field wall at NW. A gap (Wth 2m) at E appeared to be original. A stone-filled hollow in the W half of the interior may have marked the collapsed remains of a possible souterrain (GA113-112001-) noted by McCaffrey (1952, 271, no. 30). The monument was revisited in August 1985 but due to field clearance, no visible surface trace of it or the souterrain survived.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 December 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.