Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rathanlon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathanlon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14408, -8.79113
- SMR number
- GA114-149----
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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 gentle rise in rough grazing land. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 285, no. 50a) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 37.25m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall. Traces of an internal division or remains of possible hut sites were noted in the interior (SMR file). Apart from slight traces of a bank at W, no visible surface trace survives. A unit for collecting rain water occupies the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.