What is recorded here

Mocorha Castle is a ruined rectangular tower in County Mayo, owned by Brian boy MacDonnell in 1574. Its ground floor still holds two rooms under a broken vault, buried in rubble on a north-facing slope. The west wall keeps a splayed window set in an arched recess, pointing toward open pasture and forgotten movement.

Rectangular tower (12.3m N-S; 10.1m E-W), on N-facing slope, in pasture. Ground floor survives; filled with rubble and roofed by poor remains of vaulted ceiling. Ground floor divided into two rooms, the smaller on the S end. Part of splayed window in an arched recess on external face of W wall. Owned by Brian boy MacDonnell in 1574 (Knox 1908, 347). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 720. Date of upload: 14 January 2015

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