Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Longnamuck, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longnamuck
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Galey Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galey Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.57807, -8.06573
- SMR number
- RO042-045001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the W shore of Galey Bay (dims c. 1 km N-S; c. 1 km E-W), an inlet of Lough Ree, and within the possible ringwork castle (RO042-045002-). William Boy O'Kelly entertained the poets at Gallagh at Christmas 1351 according to a contemporary poem, and Connor na Garroghe O'Kelly of Grallagh was listed as a prominent landowner in 1585 (O'Donovan 1843, 19, 104-05, 122-3). Only the ivy-covered E corner of a four storey structure survives with a grass-covered cairn (dims 27m ENE-WSW; 22m NNW-SSE; H up to 3m) at its base. It was vaulted over the ground floor with a passage in the SE wall at the vault level. (Kerrigan 1996)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Donovan, J. (ed. and trans.) 1843 The tribes and customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's country, now first published from the Book of Lecan, a manuscript in the library of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.
Kerrigan, P.M. 1996 Gailey castle. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 6, 103-4.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.