Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballylin East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20490, -8.69951
- SMR number
- GA104-031----
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 pastureland on top of a long, gentle S-facing slope. When visited in 1983 this poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 24.4m) was defined by a heavily overgrown drystone wall best preserved at N. On a revisit in 2001 the monument was completely overgrown and field-clearance rubble was thrown up against the external wall-face, particularly at S. (McCaffrey 1952, 213, no. 44a)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 22 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.