Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ceapach Na Gcapall, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceapach Na Gcapall
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballindeonagh Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballindeonagh Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.55659, -9.38647
- SMR number
- GA027-014----
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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
Close to a small inlet on S shore of Lough Mask. Historical sources attest the presence of a castle here in early 14th C (Topgr. Files, NMI) but the present remains may not be that old. All that survives is NE corner of a rectangular building. The E wall (Wth 2.8m max.) contains a doorway on ground floor at its N end giving direct access into a barrel-vaulted chamber (now broken) running E-W (>7.7m by 6m). A doorway in S wall of this chamber led to a second, now gone. The N wall, which survives to a height of c. 11m, contains part of an intramural stair which evidently connected the 1st and 2nd floors. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 35-6, 40; Hardiman 1846, 46-8)
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.