Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballymartin, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymartin
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.58729, -9.15393
- SMR number
- MA118-106001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 undulating pasture, atop rise. Shown on OS map (1929) as rectangular structure. Castle now levelled, leaving rectilinear grass-covered mound (H 1.8m; 15.3m N-S; 13.1m E-W) of rubble.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 683.
Date of upload: 28 January 2014
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.