Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Gallagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.43463, -8.47566
- SMR number
- GA060-081001-
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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 S end of a glacial ridge which is mantled with associated earthworks (GA060-081002-). In existence before 1504 when it was destroyed by 'Mac William De Burgo' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 236-7, 243) (see also GA059-037----). The visible remains comprise a high flat-topped circular mound (D 15m, H 8m) which, though diminutive, is motte-like in appearance. Traces of a circular bank or grassed-over stone wall are visible around the perimeter of its summit. The S end of the ridge has been disturbed, probably by the 'mansion' which, according to local tradition, once stood at its foot. This is reputed to have had six chimneys but apart from the keystone of an arch, no visible surface trace of it survives.
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.