Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowmore (ballynacourty Ed ),ballynacourty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (ballynacourty Ed ),ballynacourty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21654, -8.95601
- SMR number
- GA103-039002-
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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 land liable to flooding. Marked on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 42m) defined by a line of hachures from NW through E to S and by a pronounced curving laneway from S to NW. Described by Holt (1912, 232, no. 64) as a 'nameless caher, of the wall of which about one third remains, forming the mearing between Carrowmore and Ballynacourty'. Apart from a short length of drystone walling (L 4m; Wth 2m) along the line of the townland boundary, no visible surface trace survives. however, its outline is visible on aerial photographs (https://binged.it/2h5ZnXn last accessed 27 July 2017).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 27 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.