What is recorded here

Castle is a castle only in local tradition, sitting in Ballingarry farmland where field boundaries once drew a broad circle around a house. No wall or trench remains for a stranger to touch, yet the shape persisted on maps long after the building vanished. Broken window stones from the 17th or 18th century were carried into a newer wall near the stream, carrying a room somewhere else. The castle may have been a home, a claim, or a mistake repeated until it became true.

In gently undulating farmland to E of a stream. Indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a semicircular field boundary and on the 1929 edition as a penannular configuration of field boundaries (diam. 90m E-W) encircling a house and outbuildings. Though no visible surface trace of any antiquities survive, there is a local tradition of a 'castle' here. Not precisely located. A number of architectural fragments (see GA105-010----), possibly of a window of 17th-18th century date, are built into a modern wall close to the stream c. 375m to the NNW. Another castle (GA105-004002-) lies c. 220m to the WSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Uploaded: 18/08/2021

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