Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockash, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockash
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15713, -8.53666
- SMR number
- GA115-039----
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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 N-facing slope in rough pastureland, some 250m to the NE of a hillfort (GA115-042----). This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (36.8m N-S; 32.5m E-W) is defined by a collapsed drystone wall, which is reduced to a grass-covered stony bank. Some wall-facing is evident at SE and a large boulder is visible at SW. An almost square annexe (E-W 14m; N-S 13m) abuts the cashel wall at N. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at N and NE. A series of banks and cultivation ridges are visible to the NW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.