Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Doon (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doon Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doon Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.51664, -10.08970
- SMR number
- GA022-032----
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
Strategically placed on a long, high, rock outcrop on N side of Streamstown Bay, conceivably the site of the 'dún' in the td. name. Kill Church (GA022-043----) lies directly opposite on S side of the inlet. It was in existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Edmund OFlairte' (Nolan 1901, 116). Apart from the foundations and some fragments of a possible bawn wall (GA022-032----) along W and N edges of the outcrop, no visible surface trace of the castle survives. Part of this wall has been utilised by a later rectangular building (L 16.50m, Wth c. 5.1m) running E-W, the tall gable and foundations of which occupy NW corner of the outcrop. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 74, 79; Hardiman 1846, 113, 283; Killanin 1954, 96)
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
The following image has been uploaded: GA022-032----_01.jpg View of castle site from NNE
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.