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House, 17th century

What is recorded here

Abutting E wall of a tower house (GA098-028001-). According to Bence-Jones (1978, 20), this was originally a 'long low and narrow 2 storey C17 house'. In the 18th C, it was enlarged and remodelled by the Donellan family who 'transformed the castle into a flanking wing higher than the C17 range and built a similar wing to balance it at the other [E] end' (ibid.). Apart from the tower house, only the grassed-over foundation lines of the 17th-C house (L > 25.7m, Wth 11.3m) survive, along with the shell of the four-storey 18th-C E wing. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 647-8) 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

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