2013:375 - DOUGH (Corcomroe Barony), Clare
County: Clare
Site name: DOUGH (Corcomroe Barony)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL015-089002
Licence number: 13E0395
Author: Kate Taylor, TVAS (IRELAND) LTD.
Author/Organisation Address: Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare
Site type: Castle - tower house
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 509329m, N 689281m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.946654, -9.349144
Dough Castle is a tower-house located overlooking the confluence of the Inagh and Dealagh Rivers, near where they flow into the sea in Liscannor Bay, and is a prominent landmark within the golf course at Lehinch. Two test trenches revealed the foundations of the castle and associated external walls. The trenching proved that the original tower measured approximately 9.8m by 7.3m and at least one building was attached to its south-eastern side. Where the walls of the castle are no longer visible above modern ground level, they survive immediately below the sod and the original ground surface is up to 2m below this level.