Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymore, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05819, -9.05648
- SMR number
- MA040-082----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough, stony heather-grown pasture, located in a low NNE−SSW ridge, with a fall of ground to SE, providing good views, especially E−S−SW.
Flat circular area (21.5m N−S; 22.5m E−W) enclosed at N−SW by a roughly built drystone wall (Wth 0.8-1m; H 0.8-1m). The wall is similar in size and construction to adjacent field walls. On the S half the wall appears to sit on a low berm/scarp (Wth 1.5-1.7m; H 0.3m), which projects slightly from beneath the wall. On the W arc the wall has been levelled, and can be traced only as a low, heather-covered stony rise. On the E half of the circuit, the wall now serves as a field/property boundary. Linear field walls abut the enclosure at NE, SE and S.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.