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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06992, -8.83729
- SMR number
- GA122-091----
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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 NW-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an subcircular enclosure (c. 31m NW-SE; c. 26m NE-SW). On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is indicated by a line of hachures curving from roughly S to W. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.