Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynastaig (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynastaig (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherbeg
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherbeg
- Coordinates
- 53.20000, -8.82486
- SMR number
- GA103-045----
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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 hillock in farmland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (39.2m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field boundary. A gap (Wth 2m) at S may be modern. There is a blocked-up souterrain (GA103-045001-) in the NE quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 183, no. 81)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.