Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - hall-house
Park (clonmacnowen By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Park (clonmacnowen By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Park Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Park Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.25727, -8.32421
- SMR number
- GA099-168----
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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
Within a moated site (GA099-168001-). Named in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 648) as 'Cloch na pairce (pratirupes)'. Very poorly preserved two-storey rectangular building (L >14.7m, Wth c. 10.7m), probably of 13th-C date. Only sections of S, W and N walls survive, and a small fragment at SE corner. These display traces of a sharp base-batter The remains of narrow slit windows with wide internal splays are visible in each wall on the ground floor.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.