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Ringfort - cashel

Kinvarra (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Kinvarra, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kinvarra (Kiltartan By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.13869, -8.95467
SMR number
GA113-137----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a slight rise in an area of reclaimed grassland and outcropping rock. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 20m) is defined by a much-collapsed double-faced drystone wall (Wth 1.8m; max. H 1m) constructed of large upright boulders and a rubble core. No trace of it survives from from N to E. A possible house site (GA113-1370012-) is visible in the S half of the interior, which is raised and strewn with stones. Current aerial imagery (Google Earth 25 May 2021) indicates that a possible annexe or field extends off the cashel to the NW. An wall within this may be an internal division. Field-clearance material has been piled immediately outside the S sector of the cashel wall.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Edited by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 23 June 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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