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Excavations.ie

1996:298 - CASTLEAFFY, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: CASTLEAFFY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 76:18

Licence number: 96E0270

Author: Gerry Walsh

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 494754m, N 788476m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.835111, -9.598982

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Castleaffy Castle appears to have been built by Gráinne na gCearrbhach Máille, who flourished in the reign of Elizabeth I. Documentary evidence for outworks, a bawn and associated features (stores and stables) is given by F. Petrel in Grania Waile (London, 1895), pp 39–43. Today only the remains of part of a three/four-storey stone tower, situated on a rock outcrop near the shoreline, survive.

The western site boundary of the proposed development will be 5m from the castle. The actual house will be located 24m to the north-east of the ruin. A circular area c. 20m in diameter has been quarried out east of the castle and within the site boundary of the proposed development. While Petral describes outworks, etc., no trace of any of these structures exists above present ground level today.

Five trenches were excavated by machine in the areas of all proposed ground disturbance. No archaeological features or small finds were recovered from any of the trenches.