Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Ballydonnellan East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydonnellan East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25089, -8.41531
- SMR number
- GA098-028002-
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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
Abutting E wall of a tower house (GA098-028001-). According to Bence-Jones (1978, 20), this was originally a 'long low and narrow 2 storey C17 house'. In the 18th C, it was enlarged and remodelled by the Donellan family who 'transformed the castle into a flanking wing higher than the C17 range and built a similar wing to balance it at the other [E] end' (ibid.). Apart from the tower house, only the grassed-over foundation lines of the 17th-C house (L > 25.7m, Wth 11.3m) survive, along with the shell of the four-storey 18th-C E wing. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 647-8)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.