Oghil Castle (in ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Oghil Beg is a vanished tower house reduced to a shallow rectangular scar in Galway pasture, preserving only a low earth bank and scattered limestone blocks. The ground still marks the western and northern wall lines beneath grass and hawthorn, inviting imagination about the rooms, fires and people who once stood inside what the field has mostly swallowed.

On a slight rise in pastureland. All that survives of this castle is a scarped rectangular earthwork (25m E-W, 13.4m N-S; H 0.3-1m) that slopes gently from W to E. A low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.5m; max. H 1m) runs N-S across it, just to the W of centre. To the W of this bank a series depressions are visible but a low grassed-over stony bank (Wth 1m) running along the W and N sides may indicate the foundation line of the castle walls. A number of hawthorn trees are growing to the E of the bank and the E face of the scarp is very denuded. Loose small stones visible on and around the earthwork appear to be field-clearance material but two large limestone blocks in a depression in the W part of it and two more visible in the E part may be the last vestiges of stonework from the castle. Possibly the remains of a tower house. The site of a nunnery (GA100-138002-) lay c. 25m to the SW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 April 2020

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