Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eoghanacht
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.14742, -9.77864
- SMR number
- GA110-009001-
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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
On a low limestone terrace 150m S of seashore, Inis Mór. Known locally as Caisleán Uí Bhriain (Robinson 1980), all that remains are the rectangular foundations of a strong tower (L 10m, Wth 9.1m, H 1.14m). The interior is rubble-filled but the inner wall face survives at ESE, indicating a wall thickness of 2.45m at this point. Evidently in its present condition since early 19th C (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 2, 389). Faint traces of foundation lines adjoin the site at N. (Westropp 1895, 255)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.