Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Roo (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roo (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07566, -8.92131
- SMR number
- GA122-146001-
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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 exposed limestone pavement with rough grazing land to the SE and SW. An almost square enclosure (c. 53m NW-SE; c. 52m NE-SW), defined by a stone wall, is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dating from March 2015. A possible structure (GA122-146002-), roughly rectangular in plan (c. 8m WNW-ESE; c. 5m NNE-SSW), is visible in the S half of the interior. Possible internal divisions or later animal pens are visible in the NW and SE angles. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Possibly a cashel or moher (see FitzPatrick 2009, 284).
The following image has been uploaded: GA122-146001-_01.jpg Google Earth image (April 2021)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 July 2022
References
FitzPatrick, E. 2009 Native enclosed settlement and the problem of the Irish 'ring-fort'. Medieval Archaeology 53, 271–307.
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.