Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Bohola Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Bohola Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.90875, -9.07941
- SMR number
- MA071-071----
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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 pasture, prominently sited on a spur of raised ground, with a steep, abrupt fall of ground at SE−S, dropping to a flat expanse of wet, boggy land. It is overlooked to NW by a ridge on top of which there is a possible motte (MA071-070----) and a church (MA-071-069----).
A rectangular building is shown at this location on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, annotated ‘Castle (in ruins)’, and the 25-inch plan also depicts a rectangular building (9-10m NW−SE; 6-9m NE−SW). A subrectangular hachured feature is shown on the 1931 edition. It may have been a tower house.
The remains consist of a low, subcircular grass-covered mound (diam. c. 20-25m at base, c. 16m at top; H 1.5-1.7m) defined by an irregular, uneven scarp, which merges with and is enhanced by the steep natural slope at SE−SW. The top and slopes of the mound have been damaged by quarrying. Stones protrude randomly from the mound but no traces of a masonry structure are visible. Field walls shown to N of the castle on the 1838 and 1931 OS 6-inch maps have been removed.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.