Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Priests Islands, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Priests Islands
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.00732, -8.31417
- SMR number
- GA132-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the E half of a small tree-covered island adjacent to the W shore of Lough Derg. Indicated by the symbol for ‘site of’ on the 1948 edition of the OS 6-inch map and named ‘Castle (Site of)’. On inspection the whole island was checked but no visible surface traces of the castle survived. Loose piles of unmortared limestone rocks noted in the E half appeared to be the result of clearance.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.