Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballybranagan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybranagan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14102, -8.95530
- SMR number
- GA113-002----
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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 steep W-facing rise surrounded by rock outcrop. Poorly preserved oval cashel (32m E-W; 25.5m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.