Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymanagh (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymanagh (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19778, -8.71281
- SMR number
- GA104-045----
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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, 214-15, no. 75) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 47.2m) defined by a drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives of it or of the associated
‘Souterrain’ marked on 3rd ed. of OS map (1933). The cashel was probably cleared away in the early 1970s when this area was bulldozed (information from Prof. Rynne).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.