Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Annaghmore (ballyboy By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghmore (ballyboy By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18295, -7.54074
- SMR number
- OF032-024----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not visible at ground level. Site identified as a 'bastion' type fortification consisting of a rectangular earthwork with possible angle tower visible on aerial photograph taken by Leo Swan IN 1972 (LS_AS_67BWN_0020_03). No cropmark visible on GSI aerial photograph (GSIAP N. 402/3).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosure1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Church2 mi
- Graveyard2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.