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Ringfort - cashel

Caherbroder, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherbroder, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Caherbroder
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.03678, -8.83695
SMR number
GA128-027----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 low rise in grassland. Well-preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 29.6m) defined by two
grass-covered drystone walls and an intervening fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.6m) at E. At SSW a curving grass-covered stone wall (L c. 10m) abuts the outer enclosing element. A souterrain (GA128-027----) lies in the SW quadrant of the interior. A bullaun stone (GA128-031----), which is traditionally associated with St Patrick, lies c. 50m to the N.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 9 January 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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