Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymaquiff South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaquiff South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12668, -8.82027
- SMR number
- GA113-022----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level pastureland. Circular cashel (diam. 21m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. Field-clearance rubble has obscured the enclosing wall at SE. The interior is divided by an old field wall running from ENE to WSW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.