Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glenbrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenbrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08101, -8.82504
- SMR number
- GA122-088----
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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 S-facing slope of a gentle rise. This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (26.9m ENE-WSW; 21.6m NW-SE) is defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall that is best preserved at SW (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.19m). The monument is overgrown with trees and scrub and from E to WSW field-clearance rubble has been piled against the external-face. It is said to have been used as a children's burial ground (GA122-088001-)(SMR file).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.