Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Drought, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drought
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Drought Castle (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Drought Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.22332, -8.48417
- SMR number
- GA098-097----
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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
On a hummock in undulating grassland, some 70m to the W of a stream. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of Walter Wall (Nolan 1901, 121). Only the S wall (int. L 7.9m; H 2.55m) and sections of the E (L 5.5m; H 1.95m; wall T 1.55m) and W (L 12.5m; max. H 2m) walls survive of this poorly preserved tower house; the N end of the W wall is reduced to a mound of rubble and there is no visible surface trace of the N wall. The walls are constructed of regularly coursed roughly cut rectangular mortared limestone blocks of limestone. Parts of the external wall-face has collapsed on all three walls, exposing the rubble core. Traces of internal render are visible. Apart from a blocked-up aperature (Wth 1.7m), roughly centrally located in the S wall, no architectural features are visible. Rubble has been piled against S end of the external face of the E wall and internally against the SW corner and the N end of the W wall. A later stone wall runs S from the SW corner and a later rectangular structure (4.45m N-S; 2m E-W; wall T 0.7m) was built against the S end of the W wall.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
References
Nolan, J.P. 1901a Galway castles and owners in 1574. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 1, 109-23.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.