Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Cashel (Ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (Ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42381, -9.78518
- SMR number
- GA051-006----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an area of rough pasture and bogland. This is a rock on which religious medals used to be left and that also bears footprints of a child and lamb (information from Mr. T. Robinson 1986).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.