Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Urracly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Urracly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Urracly Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59738, -8.98361
- SMR number
- GA015-053----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
On a rise in pastureland overlooking 'Rathbaun Turlough' to the SW. Named 'Urracly Ho.' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as T-shaped dwelling aligned NNE-SSW; on the 1916 edition it is shown as an unroofed rectangular building. Most of the house (L 14.5m; Wth 5.6m; Wall T 0.6m) has been levelled but the S wall and the returns of the E (L 6.5m) and W (L 4.4m) walls survive to a height of two storeys. Only the lower courses of the N wall survive at its junction with the E wall. The house is built of roughly worked stone with a course limestone mortar; some red brick is also visible. A rectangular doorway is centrally placed in the S wall and internally an alcove is visible on each side of it. The edge of a window embrasure is visible on the 1st floor of the E wall. Beam slots on the E and W walls indicate the 1st floor level. No other architectural features are evident and there is no trace of internal or external rendering. A field wall overlies the levelled line of the E wall. According to local information, the house was once used as a barracks.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.