County: Galway Site name: Claregalway
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA070–036 Licence number: 06E0792
Author: Rory Sherlock, Portacarron, Oughterard, Co. Galway.
Site type: Tower-house and bawn
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 537275m, N 733314m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346328, -8.942016
Claregalway Castle, a 15th-century tower-house on the north bank of the River Clare, is currently under restoration and recently uncovered foundations of the bawn wall, a possible bawn gatehouse and two D-shaped bawn turrets were described in Excavations 2006 (No. 774) and Excavations 2008 (No. 533). Monitoring continued in 2010 during the construction of a new roadside boundary wall, a simple low structure built with shallow foundations. The excavations, never deeper than 0.1m below the surface of the public footpath, did not expose any archaeological strata or artifacts.
