Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballybaun (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05048, -8.83405
- SMR number
- GA128-012----
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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 a slight rise in low-lying grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (48m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) defined by a traces of its foundation line from ESE to S to NNW. It is overlain by a later drystone wall. No trace survives from NNW to E; there is a silage pit in the N sector. The later wall is much-collapsed between NE and E. From W to NNW traces of the original wall (Wth c. 2.2m; ext. H 0.4m) are most clearly visible but it is overgrown with briars. Two sheds have been erected within the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.