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Castle - unclassified

Drumatober, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Drumatober, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumatober
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.18368, -8.37012
SMR number
GA107-193----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a low but locally prominent hillock 200m to the NW of a stream. According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 81), the 'natives' reported that there was a 'castle' in this townland but no location was specified. Local tradition points to this hillock as the site. A series of irregular grassy banks, scarps and berms, particularly on the E and S slopes of the hillock, indicate the former presence of earthworks. These have been disturbed at E by quarrying. On
the summit itself a flat platform (NW-SE 16m, NE-SW 8m) is defined by a scarp, the surface of which is dotted with a number of large blocks of dressed limestone. These include fragments of an arch and a chamfered portion of a window jamb or fireplace mantel, the dressing on which suggests a 16th or 17th-century date.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 6 June 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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