Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09994, -9.66323
- SMR number
- GA119-013----
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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 SSW-facing slope to SSE of Cill Éinne, Inis Mór. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 37.5m; E-W 35m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall. An animal shelter has been built into the wall at NE. Possible entrance at E. In the interior is a subcircular stone hut (GA119-013001-). (Robinson 1980)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.