Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghanower Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghanower Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.45098, -9.09097
- SMR number
- GA056-054001-
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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 low mound in low-lying undulating pastureland. A poorly preserved tower: only SW wall (L 9.1m) and the returns of NW and SE walls survive to a height of three storeys. There is an intramural chamber/passage in SW wall on 2nd floor. Immediately adjoining this, at the same level, are the springings of a narrow stone vault running NW-SE: possibly to support a latrine passage between 2nd/3rd floors. A doorway in S corner on 1st floor probably gives access to the angled bartizan which is visible externally on this corner. All the windows are rectangular with flat heads. A church (GA056-055001-) lies c. 280m to SE and a possible standing stone (GA056-054002-) 35m, also to SE. (Nolan 1901a, 27; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.