Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballysheedy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysheedy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05403, -8.85754
- SMR number
- GA122-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 grassland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (diam. c. 20m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. The monument is obscured by heavy overgrowth.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.