Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Menlough, County Galway, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - summer houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.