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Castle - tower house

An Aird Thoir, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, An Aird Thoir, 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
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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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

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

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

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