Information about Ballindooly Castle

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Ballindooly Castle
Irish Form of Name:
Baile an Dubhlaigh
Translation:
[Ballindooly means] Dooley's town
Civil Parish:
Oranmore
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Ballindooly Castle Popular name
Description:
The walls of this castle are still in good preservation, height about 60 feet, breadth within walls 58 feet – thickness of walls 6 ft. 8 ins. Date of erection not known.
Situation:
In Ballindooly townland close to Ballindooly Lough.
Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:
The Ordnance Survey Letters are letters between John O'Donovan and his supervisor, Thomas Larcom, regarding the work of compiling the Field Books. These letters provide further discussion on many of the places listed in the Field Books.
References to this place can be found in the following letters.
  • Volume 1 page 327
  • Volume 1 page 329
  • Volume 1 page 331

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:
Killower in Galway ; Cill-leabhair (Hogan), church of the book. Some noted sacred book preserved there : now forgotten.

Townland Information

What is a townland?:
A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169
Townland:
Ballindooly Castle is in Ballindooly townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.
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You can select more than one map and you can use a slider to make one map more transparent than another. This allows you to view what features were present or absent at different points in time.
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Ballindooly Castle
Information from the National Monuments Service.
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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service
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