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Castle - tower house

Longnamuck, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Longnamuck, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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