Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cooltymurraghy (clonmacnowen By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooltymurraghy (clonmacnowen By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Lisnashiel Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnasheil Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.25369, -8.30962
- SMR number
- GA099-072001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In farmland. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Gyllernew Odonellan' (Nolan 1901b, 110). On 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1947), the castle is shown by a cross-shaped symbol within a semicircular enclosure (E-W c. 60m) immediately S of an ESE-WNW running field boundary. No visible surface trace of it survives but the enclosure is still extant. It consists of a semicircular area (ESE-WNW 53m) defined by two degraded banks and an intervening fosse from ESE through S to WNW. It is apparently truncated along N side by the field boundary. Traces of a possible causeway are visible at SE. A number of banks are visible in the interior. Another possible enclosure (GA099-072----) lies immediately N of the field boundary and may be associated.
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.