County: Clare Site name: Dromore Castle, Ruan (Dromore townland)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL025-078001, National Monument 583 Licence number: E005019
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd
Site type: Tower-house
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 538865m, N 679602m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.863850, -8.907918
Two samples from the castle were radiocarbon dated. One was of hazel charcoal from the east wall of the porter’s lodge vault which returned a date of cal. AD 1530-1950 (UBA-39807) with the most likely date being in the mid-17th century. The second was of carbon dioxide extracted from mortar from the ceiling vault of the 1st floor in the north-east corner and was dated to the period cal. AD 1320-1636 (Aarhus AAR-29910).
Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare
