Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Garryland, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryland
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.07507, -8.86943
- SMR number
- GA122-083----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a high ridge in Garryland Wood. Poorly preserved almost circular cashel (25m NE-SW; 24m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m). A pathway cuts through the monument from NW to SE. The cashel is overgrown with trees.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.