Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Castletown (kilmaine By., Ballinchalla Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (kilmaine By., Ballinchalla Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.59194, -9.24700
- SMR number
- MA118-087----
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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
Remains of rectangular tower (7m N-S; 9m E-W), only ground floor surviving, in farmyard with farm buildings adjoining S and N walls. Much of the site is filled with rubble. Garderobe chute on exterior of N wall. Narrow, well-decorated, round headed window cut out of one large stone (H 1.5m) on W wall. Plasterwork on external face of W wall. E wall levelled.
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. 711.
Date of upload: 19 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.