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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04257, -8.86620
- SMR number
- GA128-077----
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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
On SE shoulder of a low hill. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 43m); parallel running NW-SE field boundaries cut across it from N to E and from NW to SE. On inspection in August 1982 only very slight traces of the enclosing wall of a cashel (Wth 4.2m; int./ext. H 1.4-1.5m) were evident at NE and SW. On re-inspection in September 1991 due to dense overgrowth of ferns no visible surface trace survived.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.