Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynamanagh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamanagh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cahergal
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahergal
- Coordinates
- 53.23111, -8.91290
- SMR number
- GA095-005----
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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 recently cleared scrubland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 56m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A children's burial ground (GA095-005001-) lies within the interior. (Holt 1912, 236; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 300; McCaffrey 1952, 125-6, no. 27)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.