Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Crinnage Or Ballywulash, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crinnage Or Ballywulash
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22815, -8.74219
- SMR number
- GA096-074----
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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 scrubland, c. 150m to the N of the Craughwell River. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m). A NNW-SSE running field boundary clipped the enclosing element at E. McCaffrey (1952, 155, no. 82) recorded that it was 'Not present' when he carried out his survey. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.