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Castle - unclassified

Ballycoony, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Ballycoony, 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
Ballycoony
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.16750, -8.61882
SMR number
GA105-013----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 limestone outcrop in low-lying farmland. In existence in 1574 (Nolan 1901, 112) and described in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 29-30) as the 'ruin of a castle'. On the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map a roughly subrectangular field, subdivided by another N-S running field wall, is labelled 'Site of Castle'. On the subsequent 1929 revision of map edition, 'Castle (Site of)' is shown on a small mound that occupies the E half of a raised rectangular area indicated by hachures. All that now remains is a large grass-covered mound, roughly subcircular in plan (31m NE-SW, 28.3m NW-SE). This may be partly natural: limestone is exposed on the SW side where the mound stands up to 5.25m in height. However, traces of stone and mortar are exposed in places.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 18 August 2021

References

Nolan, J.P. 1901a Galway castles and owners in 1574. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 1, 109-23.

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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