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Castle - tower house

Cregg (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Cregg, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cregg (Clare By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cregg Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Cregg Castle
Coordinates
53.38442, -8.96679
SMR number
GA069-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In low-lying woodland. This tower house, built by the Kirwans in 1648, is incorporated into a later house which was altered and enlarged in the Georgian period when two wings were added (Bence-Jones 1978, 94). Surviving features of the tower house include corbels in the basement, which still support massive oak beams of the floor above, the main hall and, in E wing, broken corbels which supported the battlements: these suggest the tower was four storeys high. Hood-mouldings above blocked-up windows are visible on N wall. A semi-pointed doorway in this wall, now partially covered with plaster, may also be an original feature. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 271; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 288)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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