Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Ballyboy (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboy (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caltragh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caltragh Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.54216, -8.92510
- SMR number
- GA029-013001-
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 a NE-facing slope in grassland overlooking bogland to S. Subcircular enclosure (NW-SE 107.6m), in fair condition, defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. No visible surface trace survives from NNW through N to E. A field bank cuts the monument at N and ENE and also mirrors the line of the enclosure from ENE to WSW. Gaps at E, SSW and W appear to be modern. There is a CBG (GA029-013002-) in the interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.