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Ringfort - cashel

Knockash, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Knockash, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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