Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16810, -8.89046
- SMR number
- GA103-016----
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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 farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) as a rectangular ‘Stone fort’
(38.4m N-S; 36.9m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 2.7m) composed of two faces of stone set on edge. Three house sites (GA103-016001- to GA103-016003-) and an internal dividing wall were visible in the interior. A wall extended from the monument at W, running in a NW direction. Two enclosures (GA103-016004- and GA103-016005-) were located near it. Unlike the house sites, which were also defined by double-faced walls, the walls of these structures consisted of a single face of blocks set on edge. A crescent-shaped wall of single blocks extended off N end of the monument. No visible surface trace of any of these features survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 February 2019
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.