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
- 53.04393, -8.84639
- SMR number
- GA128-074----
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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 an area of improved grassland and rock outcrop. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S). A ‘Cave’ (GA128-074001-) is marked within the interior on the 1838 edition of the map. The monument was levelled during land-improvement operations and no visible surface trace survives. Some of the material in the large pile of clearance stone in its vicinity may have come from it suggesting that it may have been a cashel.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.