Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Lisín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doonfarvagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonfarvagh
- Coordinates
- 53.08070, -9.58009
- SMR number
- GA119-086----
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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
Close to the summit on the lee side of the highest point of Inis Meáin. This Nat. Mon., known locally as Dún Fearbhaí or Mothar, is a well-preserved subrectangular cashel (L 27.35m; Wth 23.7m). Defined by a drystone wall with an internal terrace and a series of interconnecting steps. Entrance at E. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 262-4; Anon. 1886b, 223; Westropp 1895, 271)
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
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 42.
GA119-086---- Dun Farvagh 002.jpg
GA119-086---- Dun Farvagh 003.jpg
GA119-086---- Dun Farvagh 004.jpg
References
Anon. 1886b Antiquities of the Aran Islands, County of Galway. The Irish Builder, August 1886, 223.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.