Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Lisín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07470, -9.59930
- SMR number
- GA119-091----
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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
In a level area of small fields at S end of Inis Meáin. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 20m) known locally as Clochar (Robinson 1980). Defined by a drystone wall from NNE to SW and by a modern field wall from SW to NNE. Two large piles of rubble within the interior may be the remnants of huts.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.