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Ringfort - cashel

Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Inis Oírr, 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
Inis Oírr
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Great Fort
Coordinates
53.06216, -9.51929
SMR number
GA120-017001-

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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

On the summit of a low terraced limestone hillock overlooking the beach. Dún Formna, as it is known locally, is a much-restored Nat. Mon. consisting of a roughly oval cashel (N-S 52m; E-W 41m) defined by a massive drystone wall which follows the line of the limestone scarp. Entrance at NE. A small projecting rectangular turret, much restored, at SW is probably associated with the medieval castle (GA120-017002-) which stands in the interior. The interior formerly contained a number of possible clochans (GA120-017003-) (Anon. 1887, 45), no traces of which survive today. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 265; Mason 1938, 199-200; Westropp 1895, 272)

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 41.

References

Mason, T.H. 1938 The antiquarian remains of Inisheer, Aran, Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 196-200.

Anon. 1886b Antiquities of the Aran Islands, County of Galway. The Irish Builder, August 1886, 223.

Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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