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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19479, -8.72117
- SMR number
- GA104-040----
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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 gently undulating pastureland. When initially visited by the Survey in March 1983, this poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 34m) was defined by a drystone wall. When revisited in 1992, it had been levelled and, apart from a pile of field-clearance rubble in the SE corner of the field, no visible surface trace survived. A souterrain (GA104-040001-) lies in the centre of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 214, no. 71)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 December 2016
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.