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Ringfort - cashel

Castlequarter (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Castlequarter, 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
Castlequarter (Kiltartan By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06475, -8.87291
SMR number
GA122-045----

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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

Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an irregular enclosure (c. 23m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) that appears to have been cut into from E to S by a quarry. When inspected in September 1982 it was in farmland but aerial imagery (Google 2019) indicates that the area was subsequently developed and is now a golf course. On inspection the area was obscured by field-clearance rubble and collapsed field boundaries and no clear visible surface trace of the monument survived.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 22 July 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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