Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Northampton, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Northampton
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12689, -8.91036
- SMR number
- GA113-169----
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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. Well-preserved subcircular cashel (27.6m NE-SW) defined by a drystone wall. The monument has been embellished by 19th-C field clearance and 'restoration'. Gaps at NE and W appear to be modern as is an external staircase leading from the gap at NE to the top of the cashel wall. The gap at W is now blocked by a mortared wall, within which there is a blocked-up doorway. Two ruined field walls cut through the interior from NNE to WNW and from SSE to S respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 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.