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Castle - motte

Claretuam, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, Claretuam, 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
Claretuam
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.49510, -8.90596
SMR number
GA043-036----

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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

In undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an irregular enclosure (c. 50m by c. 30m); on 3rd. ed. (1930) it is shown as partly damaged on S side. A plan of the monument in 1910 by Costello (Topgr. Files, NMI) shows a steep-sided flat-topped 'artificial mound' (c. 45m by c. 36.5m) flanked on N and NE by a feature labelled 'old moat' and 'dyke'; possibly a fosse and external bank. A smaller semicircular area, labelled 'surface partly flat', is also shown adjoining the mound on SW side. No visible surface trace survives, but the morphology and its proximity to a church (GA043-037----) are reminiscent of a motte.

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.

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