Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymore Upper, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore Upper
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22363, -8.17849
- SMR number
- GA100-169----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a W-facing slope in high rolling pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 376, 43, 45-6) revealed a very poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m). It is defined by a slight rise.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.