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House - 17th century

Menlough, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Menlough, 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
Menlough
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Menlough Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Menlough Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.29657, -9.07350
SMR number
GA082-064001-

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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

On E bank of River Corrib 0.6km S of Menlough village. Only the shell of this once fine 17-19th-C house survives, it having been gutted by fire in 1919. The original house was a long, rectangular 17th-C gabled house (L 22.6m, Wth c. 9.2m) of two storeys over a basement. The ESE façade, of six bays, had battered walls, a centrally placed doorway, a gabled parapet with bartizans at each corner, and a tall chimney on each end-wall, only one of which survives. Subsequently extended to W, and much altered, in 18-19th C. Parts of the walls at N end of the house may have been incorporated from an earlier castle on the site (GA082-064----). (Bence-Jones 1978; Athy 1914, 155-60)

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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