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Longnamuck is a ringwork castle on the west shore of Galey Bay, where the lake still forms three sides of the trap and a worn bank completes the fourth. William Boy O'Kelly may have hosted poets there at Christmas 1351, filling the small enclosed ground with song, heat and witness while the water kept the rest of the world at a distance. The causeway, fosse and buried tower house suggest a place made for visibility, control and ceremony rather than quiet retreat.

On the W shore of Galey Bay (dims c. 1 km N-S; c. 1 km E-W), an inlet of Lough Ree. William Boy O'Kelly entertained the poets at Gallagh at Christmas 1351 according to a contemporary poem, and it may have been within this enclosure (O’Donovan 1843, 104). This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 50m NNW-SSE; 43m ENE-WSW) defined by the lake shore WNW-E-S and the remnants of an overgrown bank (at W: Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 2m) with outer facing stones and an outer fosse (at W: Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 3.2m; D 1m) elsewhere. The fosse is separated by a berm (Wth c. 13m) from a second fosse (Wth c. 5m; D 0.3m) WSW-WNW. There is a causeway (Wth 4.5m) through the inner fosse at W. Tower house (RO042-045001-) is in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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