Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymore (killeenavarra By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore (killeenavarra By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17054, -8.89630
- SMR number
- GA103-015----
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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
In recently cleared pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 178, no. 104a) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 33.8m) defined by a drystone wall, which was ‘composed of two faces of blocks set on edge’. Immediately to the E of the cashel were ‘the remains of two stone houses [GA103-015001-; GA103-015002-] 40’ x 38’ [c. 12.2m by c. 11.6m] overall’. No visible surface trace survives of the cashel or the houses.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.