Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballylee (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylee (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10645, -8.77501
- SMR number
- GA123-017----
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
On the summit of a steep rise overlooking the Streamstown River to S. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam c. 36m) defined by a drystone wall best preserved at SW. Elsewhere the enclosing element is overlain by field walls, and a road cuts through the monument from NNW to ESE. A souterrain (GA123-017001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.