Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Claretuam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claretuam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.49319, -8.90416
- SMR number
- GA043-039----
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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
In level grassland at Claretuam, a shrunken house cluster of possible medieval origin. It stood just W of 'Claretuam Bridge', an old crossing point on a tributary of the Clare River. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Redmund McMoyler McRic' (Nolan 1901b, 118). According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 125), 'A small fragment of this castle is still pointed out within a small garden'. All that now survives is a block of mortared masonry (L 1.7m, Wth 1.3m, H 1.9m) incorporated in a field wall. A church (GA043-037----) lay 160m to NW.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.