Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Historic town
Cloonameragaun,coololla,foats Or Levallynearl, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonameragaun,coololla,foats Or Levallynearl
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Aughrim
- Latest-edition OS map
- Aughrim
- SMR number
- GA087-263----
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The National Monuments Service's description
At a route centre in undulating farm and bogland. Knox (1901b, 370) states that, 'it appears … there was a castle at Aughrim with some settlers about it' in the early 14th C, citing as his source 'a paper of 1324'. Though the site of a castle (GA087-055----) is known on NE outskirts of the modern village, the exact location or character of this settlement is uncertain (Holland 1988, 81). The only other possible settlement indicators are the site of a priory (GA087-067----), 195m SE of the castle, and an unclassified ecclesiastical building (GA087-053001-), 375m to SW, beside the RC church.
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: 16 August 2010