Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castle Ffrench, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle Ffrench
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle ffrench
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle ffrench (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.45800, -8.35990
- SMR number
- GA047-014----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a steep ridge in gently undulating grassland. Known locally as O'Kelly's Castle, it was acquired by the ffrench family in the late 16th C (Bence-Jones 1978, 66). Only fragmentary remains survive, principally at SW corner (L 1.5m), while overgrown boulders may indicate the line of NW (L c. 10.5m) and SE walls (L c. 2m). Faint traces of on overgrown wall (L 10m) adjoining castle wall at SW may be the remains of the bawn. According to the landowner, a pointed arch doorway in the walled garden immediately to NE may originally have been part the castle. A 17th-C tower house (GA047-015----) lies c. 200m to E and an 18th-C mansion c. 300m to NE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 243)
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.