Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Corraun (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corraun (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.90050, -9.16410
- SMR number
- MA070-109----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a small pocket of scrub and outcropping rock in otherwise good pasture at the top of a short W-facing slope overlooking the broad Toormore River which flows N c. 75m to the W. Not recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map but depicted as a substantial mound on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and similarly depicted and labelled ‘Castle (in Ruins)’ on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map.
A large partially grass-covered circular mound (base diam. 30m; H 1.8m along W - 3.75m along E) of earth and stone has a level upper surface (diam. 14m). The surface and mound slopes along the N and S are densely overgrown with scrub and briar but large retaining stones (H 0.25m) are visible intermittently midway up the mound slopes at E, S and W. Chunks of collapsed randomly coursed mortared masonry lie on the N half of the upper surface, on the NW slope and at the foot of the mound at NW. Overgrown field walls overlie the lower slopes along the N and E.
A probably later castle (MA070-110----) stands c. 70m to the SW and the site of a possible ‘Abbey’ (MA070-111001-), a Children’s Burial Ground (MA070-111002-) and a graveyard (MA070-111003-) lie c. 130m to the SE.
Date of visit: 27-9-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.