Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Creagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Creagh Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Creagh Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.34571, -8.20717
- SMR number
- GA074A004----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating grassland, c. 10m S of a stream, near N limits of Ballinasloe town. In existence in the 16th C when it was occupied by 'Sean na Maighe O'Kelly' (Egan 1960, 37). What survives is a large slightly raised subcircular area (N-S c. 102m, E-W c. 88m) cut at N and S by a road. Of the castle itself, and the series of mounds and hollows noted by Rynne (pers. comm.), no visible surface trace survives. He described the monument as being 'eccentrically placed … the whole complex is much like a bailey with the remains of a motte/castle'.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.