Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballylin West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19486, -8.73786
- SMR number
- GA104-037----
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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 prominent rise in gently undulating pastureland. When visited in 1992 this poorly preserved circular ringfort (diam. 35m) was defined by a very low denuded bank from NE to S to NNW. From NNW to NE a drystone-walled vegetable garden had encroached upon the N sector of the interior. During a revisit in 2001 a small area denuded of sod cover in the W sector suggested that the enclosing element was made up of rock and stone, indicating that this may be the remains of a grassed-over cashel. There is a souterrain (GA104-042----) c. 25m to the NE. (McCaffrey 1952, 214, no. 93)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.