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Castle - tower house

Killure Castle, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Killure Castle, 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
Killure Castle
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killure Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Killure Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.36422, -8.30133
SMR number
GA074-070----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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