Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lackagh Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackagh Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.36922, -8.89092
- SMR number
- GA070-088----
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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
To S of the main Galway-Roscommon road in a house cluster called 'Carnoneen'. In existence in 1574 when 'Qworanonyn' castle was in the possession of 'Thomas Balve' (Nolan 1901b, 118). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1934) as a small unroofed rectangular structure (c. 10m by c. 5m), immediately WSW of the RC church. Described in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 288) as 'a small castle nearly destroyed', and by Nolan (1901a, 39-40) as 'a low, uninteresting ruin without even a loophole. Walls 5 feet [1.5m] thick, only measureable side 24 feet [7.3m], probable cubic contents 35,000 feet [10,668m]: is on rather high ground'. According to local information, it was demolished some 20 years ago due to its dangerous condition. No visible surface trace survives. A possible souterrain (GA070-090----) is associated.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.