Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyshea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Creggowny Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Creggowny Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.18183, -8.71444
- SMR number
- GA104-058----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope in pastureland. Circular cashel (diam. 48.8m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. There is a souterrain (GA104-058001-) in the SW quadrant of the interior.(McCaffrey 1952, 216-17, no. 92)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.