Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Levally East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Levally East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52066, -8.68878
- SMR number
- GA030-090002-
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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 a rise defending a shallow valley, in pastureland overlooking boggy terrain to S. According to local information, a castle which stood here was dismantled in the 19th C. Material from it was used to build the nearby chapel and barracks in Barnaderg village. No visible surface trace survives.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.