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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05308, -8.84237
- SMR number
- GA122-021----
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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. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 36m) defined by traces of a collapsed drystone wall surrounded by a later field wall. Almost centrally placed within the interior is an inaccessible souterrain (GA122-021001-), immediately to N of which is a circular cairn (diam. 2.5m) which may be fairly modern. A possible house site (GA122-021002-) is evident in the SSE sector and another less substantial structure (L 6m; Wth 3m) is evident in the NE sector.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.