What is recorded here

Lydacan Ho stands on a natural Galway rise where a later house swallowed the northern tower in 1992, leaving behind a spiral stair ghost and a pointed doorway that may have admitted its first anxious keeper. The lost tower still watches through gun-loops scattered twenty-eight metres east, while cut stones from its walls hide inside the new building like bones rerouted into another body. What remained dangerous enough to preserve is also the part that refused to disappear.

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: 10 March 2015

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