Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonnahaha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnahaha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.05273, -8.82219
- SMR number
- GA122-049----
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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
On the NW-facing slope of a hill. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (c. 26m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 2m; base Wth 5.3; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 0.2-1.7m) which is visible all round. The interior slopes from SE to NW. A souterrain (GA122-049001-) lies in the W sector.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 10 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.