Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Kilkeeran (kilmaine By., Kilmainebeg Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkeeran (kilmaine By., Kilmainebeg Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.55596, -9.16689
- SMR number
- MA121-062----
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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
Poor remains of a tower on a prominent mound with good aspect. So deep are the present ruins in the mound, that it must have contained a basement. Sections of all but the E wall are evident giving an overall outline 9m N-S by 10m E-W. Nowhere do outer and inner facing stones correspond while rubble fills the area within and outside the building to a considerable depth. A later residential building (int. dims. 18m N-S; 5.5m E-W) stands close to the N end of the tower. It contains two fireplaces and a gable chimney at its S end. The low remains of field banks and walls to the E, S, SW, and W survive of a possible associated medieval village.
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. 717.
Date of upload: 24 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.