Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynacloghy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacloghy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21745, -8.97045
- SMR number
- GA102-005002-
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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
Circa 7m to the SSW of a cashel (GA102-005----). Known locally as 'St. Sorney's Bed', this circular area (int. diam. 5.7m) is defined by a much-collapsed double-faced wall (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth at E 2.2m; Wth at W 1m) composed of large limestone flagstones. There is a possible entrance gap at E. According to McCaffrey (1952, 173, no. 3a; 1956, 189), 'local people claim that a "small covered passage built of stones" resembling a small souterrain is present in the interior, now entirely covered by earth'. This feature was not visible as the interior was strewn with boulders and overgrown with bramble. Some 60m to the SE is St Sorney's Well (GA102-005002-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.