Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
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
- GA103-016003-
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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 is one of three houses (see also GA103-016001- and GA103-016002-) recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) within the W half of the interior of a rectangular 'Stone fort' (GA103-016----). Annotated 'C', the house (6m x 4.2m) was constructed of double-faced walls (Wth 0.9m). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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