Claregalway Castle and the Nine Arches, Co. Galway, Ireland

Claregalway Castle and the Nine Arches, Co. Galway, Ireland

The Nine Arches

Castle

Bridge

Tower House

Lantern slide of Claregalway Castle and the Nine Arches, Co. Galway. Originally labeled '50 G' with title Claregalway Cas.' Claregalway Castle is a very well conserved rectangular five story tower. It has all the regular defensive features of a tower house including, a portcullis, a murder hole, parapet and machicolations. In the 1469 Annals of the Four Masters mentions Claregalway as mansion residence of McWilliam Uachtar de Burgo. Pictured in front of the castle are parts of the Nine Arches. This was a stone bridge constructed in the early 18th century. After a local landlord from nearby Lackagh, changed the course of the riverÑdiverting it away from under the Nine Arches to a deeper channel, the bridge fell in to disrepair. Both the bridge and castle pictured have under gone major reconstruction since photographed.

Sophie Hogan

RSAI, Lantern Slide, Box 22_49

The Discovery Programme

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI)

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Box 22_049

16/09/2014

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Country: Ireland

Town/townland: Claregalway

Logainm code: http://www.logainm.ie/18591.aspx

County: Galway

Logainm code: http://www.logainm.ie/906.aspx

Irish National Grid East: M 36955

Irish National Grid North: 33918

Latitude: 53.346084

Longitude: -8.941938

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