Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Cartoor, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartoor
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Two Sisters Castles (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Two Sisters Castles (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.37590, -9.14645
- SMR number
- GA068-006001-
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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 small rocky hummock in Tullokyne, a house cluster 1km E of Lough Corrib. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Muriertagh Oconor' (Nolan 1901, 115). Also known as Caisleán na gCailleach, all that now survives is W wall with parts of the adjoining N and S walls, indicating a four to five-storey rectangular building (L 10.75m, Wth >3.55m). The doorway was probably in N wall. No trace of stairs survives but from the features visible in W wall the normal arrangement of a small bedchamber and large living room on each floor seems likely. There was an intramural latrine passage on 1st floor. No trace of the second castle, said to have been blown down in 1839, survives. (Killanin 1947, 123; Hardiman 1846, 55)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.