Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lissatunny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissatunny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11975, -8.80096
- SMR number
- GA114-122----
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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 level pastureland overlooking a turlough to the NW. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 26.5m) is defined by a ruinous drystone wall. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible in the SW quadrant. A field wall cuts through the N sector of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.