House - indeterminate date, Ballymore, Co. Galway
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House
In the townland of Ballymore in County Galway, two substantial stone houses once stood beside an early Irish cashel, a type of stone-walled enclosure typically associated with early medieval settlement and landholding.
They are gone now, at least from the surface, leaving no visible trace in the landscape that might hint at what was once there.
When McCaffrey recorded the site in 1952, the remains were still legible enough to measure. The two houses together spanned roughly 12.2 metres by 11.6 metres overall, their walls some three feet wide and built from heavy masonry, suggesting structures of some solidity and ambition. They sat immediately to the east of the cashel with which they were presumably associated, though the date of either the enclosure or the houses remains uncertain. By the time the record was formally compiled, even those remnants had disappeared entirely. Neither the cashel nor the houses leave any surface trace today.
