Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherglassaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherglassaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10499, -8.88305
- SMR number
- GA122-031----
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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 grassland overlooking Caherglassaun Lough to the S. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 36m E-W). Described in 1967 as a 'ring of stones ... low and wide and with some scrub' (SMR file). No visible surface trace survives. An enclosure (GA122-030----) lay c. 200m to the NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Mineunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.