Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castletown (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tolendal Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tolendal Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.57040, -8.83889
- SMR number
- GA016-034----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of an esker ridge to W of a field system (GA016-035----). A depression (L 11m) and some quantities of loose rubble mark the site of this castle. No architectural features were noted. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 65)
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
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.