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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16612, -8.89580
- SMR number
- GA113-024----
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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
At NW end of a ridge in rough pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 34.5m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall from SW through N to NE. The SE quadrant has been bulldozed away and the resulting rubble now forms a meandering field wall, which runs through the interior from NE to NW. A low scarp indicates the former line of the wall from NE through S to SW. A gap (Wth c. 7m) at S may indicate the original entrance as traces of a raised causeway extend from here for c. 10m to S. In N half of the interior are the foundations of a rectangular structure (7.6m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.3m); possibly the remains of the roofed building shown on 1st ed. of OS map.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.