What is recorded here

Lydacan Ho stands on a natural rise in County Galway pastureland, its three-storied tower house reduced to fragments absorbed into a later dwelling. The bawn wall survives only as gun-loops embedded in a boundary twenty-eight metres east, marking where defenders once watched for danger. Demolition in 1992 stripped away most of the structure before preservation orders could protect it, leaving behind a ghost of what strength and siege required.

On a natural rise in pastureland. A report dating from 1993 recorded it as a poorly preserved three storied rectangular tower house (L c. 6.5m, W 5.5m; GA083-054002-) incorporated into the N portion of a two-storied later house (GA083-054001-). Traces of a spiral staircase were visible at NW and traces of a pointed arch doorway, possibly the original entrance, survived in the SW wall. Numerous cut stone fragments from the tower house were incorporated into the later addition. Elements of the surrounding bawn wall (GA083-054003-) survived in the form of gun-loops in the property boundary some 28m to the E. Sections of the tower house, house and bawn were demolished in 1992 and the tower house was made subject to a preservation order in that year (no. 2 of 1992). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 11 March 2015

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