Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyglass East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17359, -8.75453
- SMR number
- GA104-027----
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
In farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 211-12, no. 142) as a circular ‘Earthen fort (?)’
(diam. c. 40m) which was ‘entirely obscured due to the planting of trees in the interior. According to the landowner, it was defined by a cashel-like wall which was removed by the County Council in the 1940s for use in road-making. No visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA104-027001-) lies within the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.