What is recorded here

Moylough Castle stands as a three-storey rectangular keep from the 13th century, its wooden floors long gone but its stone bones still holding the shape of a busy hall-house. The doorway near the east corner once welcomed guests up a vanished wooden stair, while an internal spiral climbed through the north wall to connect the rooms above. The southwest wall has largely surrendered to time, leaving the interior open to the sky and the memory of footsteps that once echoed between the slit windows.

Within a rectangular enclosure (GA045-029002-). A rectangular 13th-C keep (Claffey 1983, 157-8), in fair condition, surviving to a height of three storeys. The SW wall has almost completely collapsed. The robbed-out doorway, near E corner of SE wall on 1st floor, is flanked by beam slots which supported a wooden stairs leading up to it. An intramural stairs in N corner connects 1st and 2nd floors. All the floors were wooden. Apart from large robbed-out windows on 1st floor, the remainder consist of rectangular slits or single lights with flat heads. A church (GA045-033001-) lay 110m to ESE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 233; Waterman 1956, 73-6) 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 The following images have been uploaded: GA045-029001-_01.jpg View from S GA045-029001-_03.jpg View from S GA045-029001-_04.jpg SE wall GA045-029001-_05.jpg NE wall GA045-029001-_06.jpg Slit window, NE wall GA045-029001-_07.jpg NW wall GA045-029001-_08.jpg View of interior from SSW

Moylough Castle was built in the 13th century and is notable for its well-preserved three-storey rectangular keep, reflecting the defensive architecture of medieval Ireland. Its remains provide insight into early Norman settlement patterns in the region.

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