
What is recorded here
Dunsandle stands in County Galway as a ruined tower house, its stone bones still visible though human memory has thinned around them. It may have watched a road, a field or a small community, but no clear event survives to confirm that role. The ruin preserves shape rather than story, inviting imagination to fill the rooms now open to sky.
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Church (in Ruins)Church · 50 yd
Dunsandlebridge · 827 yd
IndicatedFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1.0 mi
CaveMan-made underground passage · 1.1 mi
Badhbunmore Castle (in ruins)Castle, unclassified · 1.4 mi
MoteCastle, motte and bailey · 1.8 mi
Moyard WoodWood · 2.9 mi
Blake's IslandIslet · 4.3 mi
Barrack IslandIslet · 4.5 mi
Long PointHeadland · 5.3 miOther information
Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0