Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Carra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caislen-na-Caillighe
- Coordinates
- 53.69849, -9.21871
- SMR number
- MA110-006----
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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
Fragmentary ivy-clad remains of tower on slight rise, on island. SE angle survives to 1st-floor level, with a mound of rubble (7.2m N-S; 4.5m E-W) at its base. Small window in ground floor of S wall with corbels overhead on E and S walls. Castle of MacTybbot Burke in 1574, then known as Castlecally (Knox 1908,
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 709.
Date of upload: 25 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.