Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castlegar (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegar (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castlegar (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle Gar (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.21555, -8.84148
- SMR number
- GA103-103----
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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
In pastureland overlooking a turlough to the SW and on the SW side of a byroad through a small house cluster. Named 'Castle Gar (in ruins)' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map but evidently demolished by the time of the 1933 edition, when the words 'Site of' are appended. No visible surface trace survives. Dunkellin Castle (GA103-120002-) lies c. 475m to the SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.