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
- 53.04560, -8.84643
- SMR number
- GA128-073----
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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 poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 33.2m) is defined by a much-collapsed and completely overgrown drystone wall. A field wall cuts through the monument from
SE to S. (Fahey 1893, 5)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
References
Fahey, J.A. 1893 (Reprint 1986) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Galway. Kenny Gallery.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.