Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballygasty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygasty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballygasty Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballygasty Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.21576, -8.56747
- SMR number
- GA105-021----
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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 flat pastureland c. 1.75km N of Loughrea town. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Mac Owg & Wm Mc Tibbot' (Nolan 1901, 112). Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular roofed building (c. 14m N-W; c. 10m E-W) and labelled as 'in ruins'. Evidently demolished by the 1929 edition when the words 'Site of' are appended. All that survives is a mound of earth and stone of irregular plan (D 36m max., H c. 4m) on the surface of which are large displaced portions of mortared stone walls. The walls average 1.6m in thickness but do not appear to form any coherent plan. The mound occupies the SW corner of possible bawn (GA105-021001-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 August 2021
References
Nolan, J.P. 1901a Galway castles and owners in 1574. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 1, 109-23.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.