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Castle - tower house

Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Cloghanower, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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