Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
An Más, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Más
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.39905, -9.03428
- SMR number
- GA056-112----
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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
In a low-lying wooded area. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Walter fitz Ab fitz Ed.' (Nolan 1901b, 118). A poorly preserved ivy-covered tower: only NE wall (L 9.4m) and the returns of SE and NW walls (L c. 4m) survive to a height of three storeys. A pointed arch doorway in NE wall gives access to a small lobby with the guardroom to N and the shell of the spiral stairs to S. There is no evidence of a vault. An intramural chamber is visible in NE wall on 1st floor. Windows consist of rectangular and round-headed slits, a gun loop is visible beneath one in SE wall, and a possible ogee-headed window in NE wall.
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
References
Nolan, J.P. 1901c Galway castles and owners in 1574. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 1, 109-23.
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.