Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Castledaly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castledaly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13015, -8.71758
- SMR number
- GA114-052001-
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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 level pastureland at the NW foot of the Slieve Aughty Mountains. According to Fahey (1893, 319), this townland was previously known as 'Corbally', which ties in with the 1574 list of castles in Co. Galway where 'Corbally' castle was then in the possession of 'Shane Oge fitz John fitz Ed' (Nolan 1901, 113). All that survives of this rectangular tower house (L 8.7m, Wth 6m), which was subsequently incorporated into the easternmost of two castellated wings of an 18th-century country house (GA114-052002-), itself now in ruins, is the ground floor and portions of the 1st floor. Apart from a slight base-batter to the side-walls, the only architectural features noted were the pointed arch doorway in the SE wall and part of a single-light window on the 1st floor of the same wall. The doorway has a gun loop in its E jamb. A church (GA114-049----) lies c. 240m to the N. (Bence-Jones 1978, 66)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
References
Nolan, J.P. 1901a Galway castles and owners in 1574. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 1, 109-23.
Fahey, J.A. 1893 (Reprint 1986) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Galway. Kenny Gallery.
Bence-Jones, M. 1978 Burke's Guide to Country Houses: Volume 1 Ireland. London. Burke's Peerage Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.