Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Bunnasrah, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunnasrah
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03194, -8.82758
- SMR number
- GA128-023----
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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 a ridge in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved subrectangular cashel (53m NNE-SSW) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a later field wall.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.