Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ashfield Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashfield Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01930, -8.83321
- SMR number
- GA128-007----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the brow of a low esker ridge, overlooking Colman’s Lough to the S. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 15m; max. diam. c. 27m). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.