Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Bearna (gaillimh), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bearna (gaillimh)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Barna Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Barna Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.25765, -9.12630
- SMR number
- GA093-002----
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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 W bank of Barna Stream where it flows into White Strand Bay. In existence in 1574 when it was occupied by 'Owen Ohalorane' (Nolan 1901, 115). Known as Sean Chaislean Bheárna, it appears to have been completely demolished by the early 19th C. No visible surface trace survives. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 166; Hardiman 1846, 59-60)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.