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Castle - unclassified

Ceapach Na Gcapall, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Ceapach Na Gcapall, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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