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
- Caherlissagunna
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherlissagunna
- Coordinates
- 53.19973, -8.82057
- SMR number
- GA103-047----
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 gentle rise in farmland. Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a large roughly oval enclosure (c. 53m NE-SW; c. 31m NW-SE). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 184, no. 83) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (overall diam. c. 23m), the wall of which was ‘ruined to the foundation’. The monument is almost completely destroyed and all that survives is a section of a double-faced wall at S. There is a souterrain (GA103-047001-) in the N sector of the interior. McCaffrey (ibid.) refers to a house site (GA103-047002-) but no trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.