What is recorded here

Within a moated site (GA099-168001-). Named in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 648) as 'Cloch na pairce (pratirupes)'. Very poorly preserved two-storey rectangular building (L >14.7m, Wth c. 10.7m), probably of 13th-C date. Only sections of S, W and N walls survive, and a small fragment at SE corner. These display traces of a sharp base-batter The remains of narrow slit windows with wide internal splays are visible in each wall on the ground floor. 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

A local castle; wider significance not recorded.

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