What is recorded here

Castle, unclassified in Tír An Fhia stands on a Galway seashore beside a chapel, wearing a grassy knoll and a three-metre rock face like a forgotten guard. Limestone mortar still specks the soil, hinting that walls once bit into the air before the sea and time erased them. The place may have been a castle, but it has kept that secret by becoming a name rather than a ruin.

On seashore some 30m NE of a chapel (GA090-019----). Known locally as 'Caisleán', it is a small grassy knoll, the E side of which is a vertical rock face (H c. 3m) overlooking a small stream. Abundant traces of limestone mortar are visible in the soil (where disturbed), and towards top of the rock face, but no masonry was noted. Possibly the site of a castle, from which the locality, i.e. An Caisleán (and offshore rock on OS 6-inch map), takes its name (pers. comm. t. Robinson). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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