Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Island, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Island
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78680, -8.80537
- SMR number
- MA093-017002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the S shoreline of Island Lake, within a complex of earthworks (MA093-017001-) associated with a moated site (MA093-017006-) and Island House, a fortified house (MA093-017003-).
There is no visible trace at ground level of this possible castle which Knox (1911, 332; ‘I’ on his plan) recorded in the early 1900’s. A mound, abutting the S side of the moated site had been dug into revealing the stone foundations of a rectangular building that Knox considered to be 'a stone castle, 52 feet [16m] by 30 feet [9m]…Large, neatly cut quoin stones suggest a late thirteenth- or fourteenth-century date. A strong wall, forming a small bawn enclosed it on two sides.’
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 July 2022
References
Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.