Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloghastookeen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghastookeen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghastookeen Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghastookeen Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.20696, -8.65084
- SMR number
- GA105-062001-
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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 the SE quadrant of a cashel-like enclosure (GA105-062002-). In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Hubt McEdmud McUllig' (Nolan 1901, 113). All that survives is an irregular stony mound within which a pointed arched doorway, facing E, is visible at N and a fireplace, facing W, at SSE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 475)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 September 2021
References
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.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.