Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloonoo East,cloonoo West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonoo East,cloonoo West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Cloonoo Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloonoo Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.20289, -8.61726
- SMR number
- GA105-064----
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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 bogland from SE to N and immediately to the N of the townaland boundary between Cloonoo East and Cloonoo West. Described in the OS Letters as 'a castle ... the site of which ... is still traceable' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 475). Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an almost square area (c. 9m NW-SE; c. 8m NE-SW) defined by a broken line. All that now survives is an oval-shaped area (E-W 28m), rough underfoot and with many hollows and boulder-like stones scattered around it. In the SW part there is a low irregular mound with a flattish summit (diam 9m). This may mark the site of the castle itself.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 October 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.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.