Site of Castle de Burgh — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Castle de Burgh vanished completely from Cloonlee, leaving no wall, stone or ridge behind. It exists only through a small cross drawn on a 1920 map inside a square field beside ordinary farm buildings. The true castle may have been smaller, humbler and more forgettable than legend usually allows.

In flat pasturelend. Named ‘Site of Castle De Burgh’ on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map but not indicated: the label is to the E of a small group of farm buildings. On the 1920 edition, ‘Castle De Burgh (Site of)’ is shown c. 60m to the NW and is indicated in a small almost square field (c. 29m E-W; c. 28m N-S) by the cross symbol ‘for site of’. No visible surface trace survives and no upstanding remains of the castle were remembered locally. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 September 2021

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