Castle - unclassified

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.