Castle - tower house

The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating pastureland, c. 100m S of a stream. A poorly preserved rectangular tower (L 8.8m, Wth 4.9m int.) surviving to a height of three storeys and surrounded by a bawn. The partially robbed pointed arch doorway, centrally placed in E wall, is defended by a gun loop in S jamb. It opens into a small lobby with a murder-hole above. The guardroom, with a cross loop in E wall and a circular loop in N wall, is to N and the spiral stairs to S. The 1st and 2nd floors of the tower comprise a main chamber with a subsidiary one to E. Traces of a stone vault survive above the subsidiary chamber on 2nd floor. A mural passage occurs on this floor in S wall. Windows consist of plain rectangular and round-headed slits as well as single lights with ogee heads. The line of the rectangular bawn (E-W c. 40m, N-S c. 30m) is indicated by a curving scarp edge from NE to SE and by a bank from SE to NW.

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