Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Carrowreagh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle French
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle French (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.39209, -8.76921
- SMR number
- GA071-019----
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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 rise in undulating pastureland. Marked 'Castle French' on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. An extensive series of mounds, hollows and banks of earth and stone mark the site.
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
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.