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House - 17th century

Terryland, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Terryland, 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
Terryland
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Terryland Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Terryland Castle
Coordinates
53.28306, -9.05950
SMR number
GA082-080002-

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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, probably on the site of an earlier castle (GA082-080001-). Fragmentary ruins of a roughly rectangular two-storey 17th-C house (L 24.45m, Wth c. 10.5m ext.), in local authority care. Most of S end is now reduced to foundations but an enigmatic offset in the line of W wall suggests that more than one phase of construction may have been involved. The N gable, steeply pitched and crowned by three fine diamond chimneys, is intact, as is N end of W wall. The latter contains a doorway flanked by four twin-lighted mullioned windows with hood-mouldings, arranged in two storeys. Traces of two or more windows of a gabled attic survive above these, and the corbels of angle bartizans are visible on NE and NW corners at the same level. There are fireplaces in N and E walls and an oven in NE corner on ground floor. (Fahey 1901c, 315; Leask 1977, 156-7)

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: 09 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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