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Castle - tower house

Monivea Demesne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Monivea Demesne, 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
Monivea Demesne
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Monivea Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Monivea Castle
Coordinates
53.37631, -8.67827
SMR number
GA071-064001-

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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 flat pastureland, formerly demesne land. In existence before 1504 when it was 'destroyed' by 'Mac William De Burgo' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 236-7, 243) (see also GA059-037----). The 'Monivea Castle' marked on OS 6-inch maps was an 18-19th-C mansion, incorporating an original tower house, which was demolished c. 1940 (Bence-Jones 1978, 208). The standing remains comprise a much-altered late medieval rectangular tower (L 12.5m, Wth 9.5m) probably of three/four storeys, now inaccessible. The modern doorway in E wall is probably on the site of the original. Apart from one two-light flat-headed window on upper face of E wall, all the surviving opes appear to be of 18-19th-C date. The stepped parapets are also of similar date, and a number of chimney stacks are visible at roof level. (Nolan 1901b, 122)

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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