Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Derrydonnell More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrydonnell More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27522, -8.82245
- SMR number
- GA095-028002-
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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
This outer bawn (28.5m NW-SE; 20.5m NE-SW) extends off the NW side of the inner bawn (GA095-028001-) surrounding 'Derrydonnell Castle' (GA095-028----). It is defined by a much-collapsed wall (H 1-2m; Wth 1.6m), apart from a short 2m stretch of the NE wall where it is best preserved (H 3-4m; Wth 2m). The walls are heavily overgrown with thorn bushes and piles of rubble are visible along the internal face of the NW wall. Cody (1989, 366-7) recorded that a substantial drystone wall (L 8m) extended off the N angle of the inner bawn and ran NW
towards another equal length of a high masonry wall, also running NW. The latter appeared to be a gable wall and it abutted another drystone field wall running at right angles to it. The gable wall is probably the remains of the building shown in the interior of this bawn on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the field wall was probably built on the line of its NW wall.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.