At Ballymore in County Galway, two stone houses once stood immediately east of a cashel, the term for a stone-walled enclosure of Early Medieval Ireland typically used to protect a farmstead or small settlement. By the time the archaeologist McCaffrey documented them in 1952, only their remains survived, but they were substantial enough to record in some detail: each structure measured roughly 12.2 metres by 11.6 metres overall, with walls approximately three feet wide, built of what McCaffrey described as heavy masonry.

That combination of thick walls and considerable footprint suggests buildings of some solidity and likely some status, though without further excavation it is impossible to say more about who built them or when they were in use. The date assigned to the houses is indeterminate, meaning the surviving evidence did not allow even a broad period to be confidently assigned. The cashel beside which they stood has fared no better. Neither the enclosure nor the two houses leave any visible trace on the ground today. The landscape at Ballymore holds no obvious sign that any of this was ever here.