Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilquire Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquire Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.60000, -9.12542
- SMR number
- MA118-082----
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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
In undulating pastureland, church (MA118-007----) 100m ESE. Mound of earth and stone, quarried in parts, with bawn wall (H 0.8m) enclosing subrectangular area (48.6m N-S; 43.1m E-W) (MA118-082001-). Two chamfered stones, probably part of a Romanesque arch, lie 15m to SE. Castle of MacJonyn More, at time of Division of Connaught, 1574 (Knox, 1908, 348).
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. 696.
Date of upload: 18 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.