Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
An Aird Thoir, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Aird Thoir
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ard Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ard Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.31653, -9.87419
- SMR number
- GA076-001----
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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
At the head of a small tidal estuary close to the mouth of Cuainín na hAirde. The remains of a small jetty lie close by to SE. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Tege na Buly' O'Flaherty (Nolan 1901, 116). Fragments of E and N walls (>10.15m by >15.80m) of what was probably a tower house survive. The E wall (Wth 1m, H 5m max.) contains a crude single-light window and has a rectangular recess in its W face. The possible foundations of a bawn wall are visible to SW. (Robinson 1985, 38; Hardiman 1846, 101-2; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 119, 125)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeled1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.