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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13856, -8.91797
- SMR number
- GA113-154----
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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
In an area of rough pastureland and outcropping limestone. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 37m N-S; c. 32m E-W). No visible surface trace survives. The siting and cartographic evidence suggest that it was a possible cashel.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.