Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Annaghbride, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghbride
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Annaghbride Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Annaghbride Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.18725, -8.47066
- SMR number
- GA106-004----
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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 a house cluster in gently undulating farmland. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Therle
Claricard' (Nolan 1901, 111). Indicated on 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular structure (c. 25m NNW-SSE, c. 9m ENE-WSW) with a small extension to the E at its N end. Described in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 497) as the 'ruins of an old castle'. Evidently removed by time of 1933 edition of the map when the words 'Site of' are appended. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 August 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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.