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
- 53.04996, -8.85042
- SMR number
- GA128-021----
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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
On a low ridge in an area of grassland and rock outcrop. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a hachured subcircular enclosure (c. 34m N-S; c. 26 E-W) and on the 1915 edition as a subcircular field. On inspection in August 1982 a curving field boundary in the W and N sectors with slight traces at S may have mirrored the outline of the enclosing element; otherwise no visible surface trace of the enclosure survived. Many of the field boundaries shown on the 1915 map had also been cleared away. Aerial imagery indicates that a large quarry now occupies this area and no visible surface trace of the enclosure is visible. A trackway leading into the site may overlie the W half of it. The cartographic evidence and siting in an area of outcropping rock suggest that this may be a cashel.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.