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Castle - tower house

An Laigheachán, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, An Laigheachán, 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 Laigheachán
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lydacan Ho.
Latest-edition OS map
Lydacan House
Coordinates
53.32852, -8.93527
SMR number
GA083-054002-

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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 a natural rise in pastureland. A report dating from 1993 recorded it as a poorly preserved three storied rectangular tower house (L c. 6.5m, W 5.5m; GA083-054002-) incorporated into the N portion of a two-storied later house (GA083-054001-). Traces of a spiral staircase were visible at NW and traces of a pointed arch doorway, possibly the original entrance, survived in the SW wall. Numerous cut stone fragments from the tower house were incorporated into the later addition. Elements of the surrounding bawn wall (GA083-054003-) survived in the form of gun-loops in the property boundary some 28m to the E. Sections of the tower house, house and bawn were demolished in 1992 and the tower house was made subject to a preservation order in that year (no. 2 of 1992).

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 10 March 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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