Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Ceathrú An Chaisleáin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Chaisleáin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloonboo Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloonboo Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.37931, -9.01110
- SMR number
- GA069-013001-
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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 slight rise in low-lying marshy bogland. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Moyler McShean' (Nolan 1901b, 118). A poorly preserved rectangular four-storey tower (L 12.3m, Wth 10.6m) heavily overgrown with ivy. Almost all the dressed stones have been removed and there is a breach in ENE wall. The robbed-out doorway in NNW wall leads to a small entrance lobby with a murder-hole above. A short intramural stairs to S leads to the spiral staircase. A stone vault exists between ground/1st floor. The garderobe is in ENE wall on 1st floor. Intramural chambers occur in NNW and SSE walls on 2nd floor. A fireplace survives in SSE wall on 1st floor and its flue is visible within a window embrasure overhead on 2nd floor. Projecting corbels on top of NNW wall, over the doorway, indicate the former presence of a machiolation. Some slit and flat-headed rectangular windows survive. There is a holy well (GA069-013002-) c. 40m to SE, while 30m to E is a possible moated site (GA069-013003-). (Nolan 1901a, 44)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.