Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kinvarra (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.