Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballykine Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykine Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55559, -9.33867
- SMR number
- MA120-033003-
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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 rocky ridge containing Ballykine house and tower house (MA120-033001-). Knox (1904, 100) refers to an old stone fort of the O'Caidhin Clan. No visible surface trace. A souterrain (MA120-033002-), marked 'Cave' on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps, may mark the site of the cashel.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 249.
Date of upload: 15 October 2014
References
Knox, H.T. 1903 Ballykine Castle. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 3, 95-101
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.