Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballyglass Middle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass Middle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Ballyglass Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyglass Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.67937, -8.50826
- SMR number
- GA007-019----
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 a W-facing slope in undulating pastureland overlooking bogland to S and W. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 70) note that the infamous 'Nuala na meadoige', the mother of David Burke, is said to have resided here. Only a low rectangular flat-topped grassy mound (NNW-SSE 7m, H 1.2m) survives. No architectural features are visible. A holy well (GA007-020----) lies 150m to W.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.