Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - hall-house
Moylough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moylough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Moylough Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moylough Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.48979, -8.58018
- SMR number
- GA045-029001-
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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
Within a rectangular enclosure (GA045-029002-). A rectangular 13th-C keep (Claffey 1983, 157-8), in fair condition, surviving to a height of three storeys. The SW wall has almost completely collapsed. The robbed-out doorway, near E corner of SE wall on 1st floor, is flanked by beam slots which supported a wooden stairs leading up to it. An intramural stairs in N corner connects 1st and 2nd floors. All the floors were wooden. Apart from large robbed-out windows on 1st floor, the remainder consist of rectangular slits or single lights with flat heads. A church (GA045-033001-) lay 110m to ESE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 233; Waterman 1956, 73-6)
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
The following images have been uploaded:
GA045-029001-_01.jpg View from S
GA045-029001-_03.jpg View from S
GA045-029001-_04.jpg SE wall
GA045-029001-_05.jpg NE wall
GA045-029001-_06.jpg Slit window, NE wall
GA045-029001-_07.jpg NW wall
GA045-029001-_08.jpg View of interior from SSW
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.