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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22196, -8.96410
- SMR number
- GA102-010----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 N-facing slope in undulating grassland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 175, no. 13a)
as an ‘extremely ruinous’ oval ‘Stone fort’ (62m N-S; 53.4m E-W) which was obscured by field debris. No visible surface trace survives
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 February 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.