Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Loughcurra North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughcurra North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.13988, -8.90775
- SMR number
- GA113-152----
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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 rise in rough pastureland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 25m) is defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall from SW through W to NW. From E to S its line is visible beneath a later field wall that runs NE-SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.