placenamesToomour
An Tuar Mór
Near Toomour in Ballindoo or Doocastle, a burial ground occupies an earlier earthwork.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Tuar Mór · Irish · main form
- Toomour · English · main form
Place & story
A ringfort reused
The National Monuments Service records a ringfort about three hundred metres east of Toomour’s centre, in Ballindoo or Doocastle. Its raised interior measures roughly thirty-five by thirty-one metres. A bank encloses it, with a ditch and outer bank surviving on part of the circuit. The survey cautions that the outer bank may be a later field boundary. [3]
The burial ground
The ringfort’s interior became a burial ground, marked on the 1838 and 1920 Ordnance Survey maps. Many graves occupy its western half; the 2020 survey judged most of these to be twentieth-century. The graveyard subsequently extended beyond the earthwork to the west and south. [2]
Fragmentary standing stones
South-west of Toomour, another record describes large upright stones beside a field fence. Archaeologists classify these remains as an unclassified megalithic tomb: their fragmentary condition prevents a more precise identification. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Costello
- Civil parish
- Kilturra
- Within
- Ballindoo or Doocastle
- Coordinates
- 54.02883, -8.65687
- Logainm ID
- 114441 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Toomour. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- SMRMA052-003001-:Ballindoo or Doocastle,Burial ground,26June2020 · Jane O’Shaughnessy, National Monuments Service
- SMRMA052-003002-:Ballindoo or Doocastle,Ringfort - rath,26June2020 · Jane O’Shaughnessy, National Monuments Service
- SMRMA052-002----:Ballindoo or Doocastle,Megalithic tomb - unclassified,26June2020 · Jane O’Shaughnessy, National Monuments Service
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-01. How this page was prepared.