Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Cloonacastle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonacastle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12689, -8.40182
- SMR number
- GA116-029----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a prominent hillock in pastureland c. 1km to the SSE of Duniry village. This motte and bailey is defined by a low circular mound (diam. c. 20m) that is destroyed at S, and a D-shaped bailey (c. 35m E-W) which adjoins it to the S. The latter is defined by a scarp (H 1.7m) which is steepest from NE to SW. A fosse (Wth 2m) and outer bank surround the bailey from SE to NW. The field boundary curving from ENE to ESE may mirror the line of the bank. The entire monument is then delimited by the natural scarp of the hillock. A castle (GA116-029001-) occupied the top of the motte. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 490)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 December 2019
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.