Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Knockawuddy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockawuddy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22736, -8.94411
- SMR number
- GA095-076001-
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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 low-lying pastureland. Holt (1912, 243, no. 54) referred to a hillock known as ‘Castleknock’ on the old road from Clarinbridge to the west and stated that it showed ‘evident traces of ancient foundations’ that seemed ‘to represent a small castle, bawn and bailey built on the site of a Gaelic work’; he also noted an ope which exposed a ‘souterrain’. He supposed that the castle, of which no record existed, stood on the road with its bawn extending to the S and the small bailey to the W (ibid.). On inspection in March 1993, no visible surface traces of any of these features were evident.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 August 2017
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.