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Castle - tower house

Oghil Beg, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Oghil Beg, 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
Oghil Beg
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Oghil Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Oghil Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.25030, -8.18300
SMR number
GA100-138001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 slight rise in pastureland. All that survives of this castle is a scarped rectangular earthwork (25m E-W, 13.4m N-S; H 0.3-1m) that slopes gently from W to E. A low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.5m; max. H 1m) runs N-S across it, just to the W of centre. To the W of this bank a series depressions are visible but a low grassed-over stony bank (Wth 1m) running along the W and N sides may indicate the foundation line of the castle walls. A number of hawthorn trees are growing to the E of the bank and the E face of the scarp is very denuded. Loose small stones visible on and around the earthwork appear to be field-clearance material but two large limestone blocks in a depression in the W part of it and two more visible in the E part may be the last vestiges of stonework from the castle. Possibly the remains of a tower house. The site of a nunnery (GA100-138002-) lay c. 25m to the SW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 1 April 2020

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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