Menlough Castle

On E bank of River Corrib 0.6km S of Menlough village. Only the shell of this once fine 17-19th-C house survives, it having been gutted by fire in 1919. The original house was a long, rectangular 17th-C gabled house (L 22.6m, Wth c. 9.2m) of two storeys over a basement. The ESE façade, of six bays, had battered walls, a centrally placed doorway, a gabled parapet with bartizans at each corner, and a tall chimney on each end-wall, only one of which survives. Subsequently extended to W, and much altered, in 18-19th C. Parts of the walls at N end of the house may have been incorporated from an earlier castle on the site (GA082-064----). (Bence-Jones 1978; Athy 1914, 155-60) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010