2010:324 - CLAREGALWAY, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: CLAREGALWAY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA070–036
Licence number: 06E0792
Author: Rory Sherlock
Site type: Castle - tower-house and Bawn
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
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.