Terryland Castle (in Ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Terryland Castle stood on the east bank of the River Corrib opposite Newcastle, guarding a shallow fording point where water and land collided. Domynick Lynch held the original fortress in 1574, but time erased that structure entirely. Only fragmentary walls of a later seventeenth-century gabled house remain, stripped of roof and purpose. The river still flows past the ghost of the site, carrying away every name and nail that once marked it.

On E bank of River Corrib opposite Newcastle (GA094-040----) close to a probable fording point (GA082-090----). There was a castle here in 1574, at which time it was in the possession of 'Domynick Lynch' (Nolan 1901, 115). No visible surface trace of the latter survives, however. The present fragmentary ruins, probably on the same site, are those of a 17th-C gabled house (GA080-080002-). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 166-7) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Terryland Castle was held by Domhnall Ó Domhnaill (Domynick Lynch) in 1574 and is remembered as part of the medieval defensive and territorial landscape of the region. Its location near a fording point of the River Corrib suggests it had strategic importance in local control and communication.

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