Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Sheeaun (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheeaun (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.04600, -8.85608
- SMR number
- GA128-072----
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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 scrubland. This very poorly preserved oval cashel (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) is defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field wall from N to E. Some facing-stones are evident from S to W. A NE-SW running field wall clips the monument from SE to SSW. There is a souterrain (GA128-072001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.