Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynascragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynascragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19430, -8.71276
- SMR number
- GA104-056----
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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 reclaimed pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 216, no. 76a) as a very ruinous circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 40.2m). Apart from two earthfast boulders at W, which may have formed part of the enclosing wall, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.