Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rathanlon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathanlon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14527, -8.78438
- SMR number
- GA114-147----
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 level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 285-6, no. 52) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 46m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives. A later circular field wall may mirror its outline. There is a souterrain (GA114-147001-) in the interior which is planted with trees.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.