What is recorded here

Clooncurreen Castle stood in open Galway grassland when Dermot Omanyn occupied it in 1574, but time has reduced it to a ten-by-seven-foot mound scattered with broken stone. Earthen banks still circle the ruin like a forgotten boundary, marking the edge of a residence that no longer remembers its own rooms. What is left is not grandeur but shape: a rectangular shadow in the land where a household once lived, defended, and disappeared.

In level grassland falling steeply away to S. In existence in 1574 when it was occupied by 'Dermot Omanyn' (Nolan 1901b, 122). All that survives is a subrectangular foundation mound (L 10m, Wth 7m) around which large chunks of masonry are scattered. No architectural features are visible. A series of earthen banks surround the monument. (Claffey 1983, 150) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Clooncurreen Castle was occupied by Dermot Omanyn in 1574 and is remembered as a historical site associated with early modern Irish landholding. Its remains provide insight into 16th-century castle architecture in the region.

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