Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Liscananaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscananaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.36839, -8.96609
- SMR number
- GA069-026----
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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 overlooking marshy ground to S and W. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Tybbot Lyegh' (Nolan 1901b, 118). When first visited in 1983, only a tottering section of W wall (L 2.7m) of this tower survived to a height of four storeys. The following architectural features were noted: an arched embrasure on ground floor; a doorway on 2nd floor leading to an intramural passage; a series of intramural features on 2nd/3rd floors, possibly fireplaces; the springing of a possible stone vault between 2nd/3rd floors; and a small cupboard on 3rd floor. The wall subsequently collapsed during a storm, c. 1990, and is now just a spread of rubble. A series of mounds and hollows visible to E, S and W may represent traces of the bawn.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.