Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (ballynacourty Ed ), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (ballynacourty Ed )
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballaghbristy Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballaghbristy Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.21186, -8.99045
- SMR number
- GA102-023----
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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 the S side of a peninsula overlooking Mweenish Island. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 175, no. 2) as an ‘Earthen fort’ of which only ‘a portion of the bank’ survived, the rest having been cleared as a result of ‘tillage operations’. Apart from a section of a grassed-over bank of earth and stone (L 22m) at W, no visible surface trace of the monument survives. (Holt 1912, 229)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 January 2017
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.