Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynahinch, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahinch
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46787, -9.86365
- SMR number
- GA036-001002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In W part of Ballynahinch Lake. The OS Letters record that Castle Island, now occupied by Ballynahinch Castle (GA036-001001-), 'is said to be partly artificial' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 138). What survives today is a subcircular island (D c. 30m), the perimeter of which is defined by a large number of boulders; possibly the remains of the enclosing wall of an island cashel. (Hardiman 1846, 106; Kinahan 1872, 12)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.