Building

The National Monuments Service's description

Located immediately N of a bridge over a stream which forms the boundary between the townlands of Kiltarnaght and Aghadooey Glebe. It flanks the E side, at the S end, of an access road into a private dwelling. This monument is listed in the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) as ‘building’ based on an unpublished and undated field report by Liam Price (d. 1967) (unpublished NMI Topographical files). Price recorded a mortared stone wall on a roughly N–S axis, ‘about 14 yards long [c. 13], 9 feet high [c. 2.7m] and now about 3 feet wide [0.9m].’ The facing on the west side was robbed out. Ground level was c. 2m higher on the E side concealing much of the E face of the wall but what was visible appeared intact. Price was told locally that ‘it was a bit of a wall of a castle.’ An inspection in July 2015 confirmed that the remains consist of a mortared rubble wall (L 11.5m, Wth 0.6-0.8m; H c. 2.5m high), orientated NNW/SSE. A modern stone wall (H 0.85-1.6m) has been constructed along the west side of the older wall and, as a result, only the upper section of the robbed out W face of the old wall is visible. The eastern side of the wall is concealed by overgrowth and could not be examined. According to local tradition, the wall represents the remains of a mill. (Pers. comm. Richard Crumlish, 31st July 2015).

Attached image:
MA067-048----_01.JPG This photograph, taken on 30th July 2015, is uploaded courtesy of Richard Crumlish, consultant archaeologist.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 4 August 2015