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Castle - unclassified

Knockawuddy, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Knockawuddy, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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