Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Tír An Fhia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tír An Fhia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23371, -9.65106
- SMR number
- GA090-020----
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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 seashore some 30m NE of a chapel (GA090-019----). Known locally as 'Caisleán', it is a small grassy knoll, the E side of which is a vertical rock face (H c. 3m) overlooking a small stream. Abundant traces of limestone mortar are visible in the soil (where disturbed), and towards top of the rock face, but no masonry was noted. Possibly the site of a castle, from which the locality, i.e. An Caisleán (and offshore rock on OS 6-inch map), takes its name (pers. comm. t. Robinson).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.