Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynacloghy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacloghy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21678, -8.97289
- SMR number
- GA102-007----
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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 low hillock in rough pastureland, c. 120m E of Loughnahalla Bay. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (31m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, no visible surface trace of which survives from SE to S. According to Holt (1912, 231), ‘gateway’ (Wth 2.1m) at E was approached by a stone causeway; no visible surface trace of this feature survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 173, no. 3)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.