What is recorded here

No visible trace remains of the ringfort at Ballymore. The earth has taken back the stones, erasing the boundary between human making and natural decay. What was built has become landscape again, indistinguishable from the ground that swallowed it.

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

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