Site of Cloonoo Castle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Cloonoo Castle vanished into Galway pastureland, leaving only a low mound and scattered stones beside the Cloonoo East and Cloonoo West boundary. The mound may have been the castle itself, while the surrounding hollows and rough ground preserve the shape of a building that stopped resisting time. It still overlooks the bogland, waiting for someone to imagine the rooms, fires and voices that once filled it.

In pastureland overlooking bogland from SE to N and immediately to the N of the townaland boundary between Cloonoo East and Cloonoo West. Described in the OS Letters as 'a castle ... the site of which ... is still traceable' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 475). Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an almost square area (c. 9m NW-SE; c. 8m NE-SW) defined by a broken line. All that now survives is an oval-shaped area (E-W 28m), rough underfoot and with many hollows and boulder-like stones scattered around it. In the SW part there is a low irregular mound with a flattish summit (diam 9m). This may mark the site of the castle itself. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 October 2021

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