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
- 53.13183, -8.91054
- SMR number
- GA113-157----
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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 gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 36m). On inspection in November 1982 no visible surface trace survived. According to local information, it had been 'removed' in the early 1950s. The OSi digitalglobe aerial imagery (Google maps) indicates that a house was subsequently built in the SW quadrant of the interior. Cartographic evidence suggests that this was a ringfort, possibly a cashel.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.