Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ahgloragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahgloragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.50280, -8.75911
- SMR number
- GA044-004----
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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 ridge in rolling farmland liable to flooding, the Grange River flows to E. In existence in 1574 when 'Castle moell' was in the possession of 'Edmund McMelaghlin' (Nolan 1901b, 117). No visible surface trace survives. Some cut-stone fragments from it are incorporated into the adjoining field walls.
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.