Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Laragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Laragh Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laragh Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.30679, -8.62237
- SMR number
- GA085-071----
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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 edge of a large flat bog. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Shane ODaly' (Nolan 1901b, 120). Evidently ruined by 1839 when OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 468) note 'In Larhagh (Larthach, leathrath) townland, a castle stood, the site of which is still pointed out'. No visible surface trace survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.