What is recorded here

Cahergal Castle belonged to Edmund McUilligs Sonnes in 1574, yet no tower or trench remains visible today. A forgotten stone slab embedded in a cowshed wall is all that survives, waiting to be read. The castle vanished into ordinary farm life, keeping its name only in a list and its shape only in a buried marker.

In the list of castles in Galway, compiled in 1574, is one at 'Caher geale' in the barony of Dunkellin, then in the possession of 'Edmund McUilligs Sonnes' (Nolan 1901, 113). Not located: however, a poorly preserved inscribed stone slab (see GA104-079----), found in the wall of a cowshed in the S part of the townland, may possibly be related. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 May 2017

Built or held in the late 16th century by Edmund McUilligs Sonnes in the barony of Dunkellin. It is remembered as part of the historical record of Galway's castles and the Gaelic landholding families of the period.

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