Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cregaclare Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregaclare Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15456, -8.79166
- SMR number
- GA114-063001-
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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
At the NE end of a narrow strip of deciduous woodland, surrounded by level pasture, on former demesne grounds. A roughly circular area (diam 35m) is defined by a very substantial drystone wall, built in straight sections of large inner and outer stones facing a rubble core (T 1.9-2.4m; int. H 1-1.6m; ext. H 1.3m at E-2.1m at N). The N-half of the interior contains a 17th-century church (GA114-063----) with a later extension and a late 19th-century Bingham family mausoleum. A wide piered entrance was created in the cashel wall at SE to allow access to these structures, and the cashel wall was narrowed (Wth 1.3m) at WNW to accommodate the construction of the mausoleum.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 08 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.