Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Forge
Balrobuck More,shanbally (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrobuck More,shanbally (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40849, -9.01724
- SMR number
- GA056-021----
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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
This 19th-century forge consists of a thatched cottage within which all the tools associated with blacksmithing are evident, including a hearth and associated leather bellows, as well as an anvil and a myriad of tools. To the S of the cottage a large perforated circular limestone with two grooves is lying on the ground. According to local information, it was used to 'shoe' wheels, that is to put metal tyres on wooden cart wheels.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.