Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyhugh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhugh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05568, -8.82716
- SMR number
- GA122-004----
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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 low-lying farmland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 40m) defined by a collapsed
drystone wall best preserved from SE through S to NW. Elsewhere heavy overgrowth has obscured the enclosing element. A gap (Wth 7m) at NW may be modern. Within the interior, and just NNW of the centre, is an oval-shaped mound of collapsed stone. To S of this is a souterrain (GA122-004001-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.