What is recorded here

Castle of Cladagh belongs to Stradbally North, County Galway, yet no wall, ditch or stone has ever surfaced to prove it. The name still floats beside the Clareen River near Clarinbridge, suggesting a building that vanished so completely it denied even memory. Perhaps it drowned under river silt, was never built at all, or belonged to a world that stopped remembering its own structures.

According to the OS Letters, there was a castle in 'the townland of Stradbally North' which was known as 'the castle of Cladagh' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 294). However, Redington (1912, 180-81) could find no remains of the castle 'nor ... any tradition of such a building having existed'. Part of S side of the estuary of the Clareen River c. 1km SW of the village of Clarinbridge is marked on the OS maps as 'Cladagh'. This area was field walked and no trace of the castle was noted. Not located. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 May 2017

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