Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockash, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockash
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15376, -8.53581
- SMR number
- GA115-053----
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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
Some 100m to the E of a hillfort (GA115-042----). Aerial reconnaissance in June 1986 (ASGAP 267:6) revealed this poorly preserved subcircular cashel (25.5m N-S; 21.6m E-W). It is defined by a low grassed-over stony bank that is visible all round but is best preserved at E (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.65m). A TV/communications mast and a concrete shed have been constructed in the interior. Abutting the monument at S is a very poorly preserved, almost square, annexe or house site (N-S 6m; E-W 5m). It is composed of natural clints from the surrounding outcropping rock and small stones.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.