What is recorded here

Tiaquin Castle stood on a slight Galway rise in 1574, held by Melaghlin OKelly, but time has reduced it to an uneven grassed platform where forgotten walls likely collapsed into earth. The land still carries the shape of that lost house, inviting imagination to fill the gap between the surviving rubble and the life that once moved through it.

On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Melaghlin OKelly' (Nolan 1901b, 122). Described in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 256) as the 'butt of the castle that originally bore the name of Tiaquin'. All that survives is an uneven oblong platform (L 24m, Wth 10m), possibly a grassed-over pile of rubble from the castle, upon which large chunks of masonry rubble are visible. The gable of an old house stands close by to S. 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

Tiaquin Castle was held by Melaghlin O'Kelly in 1574 and is remembered as an example of a 16th-century Irish castle associated with the local Gaelic aristocracy. Its remains provide insight into early modern landholding and defensive structures in the region.

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