Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ceathrú An Bhrúnaigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Bhrúnaigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carrowbrowne Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrowbrowne Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.31703, -9.02548
- SMR number
- GA082-018001-
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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 S edge of an extensive tract of bogland called the Curragh. In existence in 1574 when it was occupied by 'Donell Oge Ohologhan' (Nolan 1901, 115). Described in OS Letters as 'an old castle in ruins. The walls are still standing, thickness 4 feet [1.2m], height 54 feet [16.45m], bread[th] within walls 25 feet [7.6m]'. They also note 'that the extensive ruins of other edifices attached to it, are the remains of buildings got up after the erection of the castle by the family of the Burkes' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 138). All that remains today are the ruins of a later house (GA082-018002-), the castle itself having fallen, and its stone reused, in the late 19th C. (Athy 1914, 154-5)
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
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.