Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Tooreen East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16256, -8.91606
- SMR number
- GA113-195001-
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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 hillock in partially reclaimed rock outcrop. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 26m)defined by two much-collapsed drystone walls separated by a wide berm (Wth 4m). Both the inner (Wth 1.45m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.2m) and outer (Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) walls are mainly reduced to a collapsed spread of stone and few inner or outer facing-stones survive. A stone-lined gap (Wth 1.7m) at ESE appears to be original. A trackway (GA113-195----) skirts the monument at ESE. To the S two rectangular fields (L 35m; Wth 15m) may be associated with the cashel. (CUCAP AHJ 19)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.