Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Loughcurra South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughcurra South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12370, -8.91678
- SMR number
- GA113-162----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 hilly scrubland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 45.5m) is defined by a collapsed
drystone wall (max. Wth 3.4m; int. H 1m). The interior is overgrown with beech trees. There is a souterrain (GA113-162001-) just to the S of the centre of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.