Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Leitir Mealláin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitir Mealláin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.24137, -9.72220
- SMR number
- GA089-018----
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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
Close to seashore on E side of Oileán Leitir Mealláin, commanding the narrow tidal channel connecting Cuan Chuigéil and Cuan Chaisín. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Ochaghy' (Nolan 1901, 116): in 1584 it is recorded as the residence of Morogh MacHugh (Hardiman 1846, 64). Apparently demolished by time of OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 84, 86-7). All that survives today is a fragment of a once-substantial mortared wall (L 5.2m, Wth 1.25m, H 3m), running E-W, the inner face of which has been completely robbed. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 348)
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.