Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynageeha,moneymore East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynageeha,moneymore East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26453, -8.88820
- SMR number
- GA095-004----
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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 a rise in pastureland. Described by Athy (1914, 135) as a ‘much ravelled’ circular rath (diam. c. 30m), the ‘rampart’ of which was ‘stone faced inside’. The ‘rampart and ditch’ were ‘almost almost obliterated’ on the ‘E side’. All that survives is a section of walling (Wth 3.4m; H 0.9m) at W, which is partially obscured by field-clearance rubble, suggesting that this is a cashel. A later field wall overlies the line of the cashel wall at N and another field wall running NNW-SSE on its E side probably cut through the NE section of the enclosing element (McCaffrey 1952, 135 no. 45)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 February 2018
References
Lynch Athy, M. 1914 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the Barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway: IV - Oranmore Parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 129-98.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.