Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Middlequarter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Middlequarter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Guairims Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Guairims Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.61391, -10.20802
- SMR number
- GA009D019----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Close to seashore on N side of the harbour of Inishbofin. The OS 6-inch maps record it as the site of a castle but the OS Letters fail to mention it at all. According to Westropp (1911, 68) 'only a tradition of the site [existed] in 1839'. In the absence of surface features and documentary evidence, its existence and classification must remain uncertain. The site of Guairim's House lay to N (GA009D011----).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.