Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lisnagyreeny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagyreeny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08148, -8.88397
- SMR number
- GA122-114----
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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
In grassland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 28m) is defined by a low drystone wall, which is overlain by the townland boundary wall from SW to N and by a field wall from N to E. Within the interior the foundations of two rectangular buildings are evident: (a) to the NE (WNW-ESE; L 14.2m; Wth 7.5m) has an internal division at its E end, and (b) to the SW (NW-SE; L 11.8m; Wth 6.5m). These may be the remains of two of the three buildings shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map; no visible surface trace of that shown in the SE quadrant survives. A children's burial ground (GA122-114001-) occupies the W sector of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.