Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Kilcoona, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoona
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44295, -9.03325
- SMR number
- GA056-085003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Immediately SE of a church (GA056-085001-). What survives is the stump of a circular tower (D c. 3.25m, H 2.5m) composed of large well-dressed and coursed limestone blocks. Seven courses of masonry still stand on N side, above a basal plinth, but S side is reduced to the foundations revealing a rubble core. According to Barrow (1979, 98-9), this is probably the tower referred to in the Annals as being erected at 'Annadown' in 1238 (see GA056-069001-). (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 389; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 304-5)
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 image is attached:
GA056-085003-.jpg
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.