Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Roscam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roscam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Round Tower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Round Tower
- Coordinates
- 53.26464, -8.98498
- SMR number
- GA094-072004-
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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
In NW sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-). The stump of a tower (D 4.55m ext., H c. 11m), built of dressed and coursed limestone on a narrow plinth. The trabeate doorway, 1.1m above present ground surface, faces SE. The interior is rubble-filled to level of the doorway, but the presence of four floors is indicated by corbels and joist holes. There is a partially blocked window on 3rd storey facing ESE, and numerous putlog holes are visible externally. A later parapet and stone steps leading to doorway may represent a later reuse. (Barrow 1979, 104-6; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 318-22; Wakeman 1895, 284-5)
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
The following images have been uploaded:
GA094-072004-_01 View from SSW
GA094-072004-_02 View from SE
GA094-072004-_03 View of window
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 46.
References
Barrow, G.L. 1979 The round towers of Ireland: a study and gazetteer. Dublin. The Academy Press.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Wakeman, W.F. 1895 Proceedings: Roscam round tower, near Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 284-6.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.