Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lisheenaclara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisheenaclara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14742, -8.53879
- SMR number
- GA115-052----
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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 the S-facing slope of a prominent hillock. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 34m) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall from SE to SW; a gentle scarp forms the enclosing element from SW to NE while a steeper natural scarp defines the E limits. Quarrying has occurred at NE. A children's burial ground (GA115-047----) lies in the S half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.