Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Knockanarra, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanarra
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.69505, -8.57276
- SMR number
- GA001-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On W bank of the Island River in a low-lying but strategic position. In existence in 1574 when 'Cloghane Kellebig' castle was in the possession of 'Mac Davy' (Nolan 1901b, 117). All that survives is N wall (L 13.4m, H < 2.8m) with a pronounced base-batter, and short sections of E and W walls (L c. 2m). Apart from traces of an embrasure in N wall, no architectural features survive. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 117)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.