Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O'Garas of Coolavin / Kieran O'Conor, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Conor, Kieran Denis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celtic antiquities.

Antiquities.

Moygara Castle (Ireland).

Sligo (Ireland : County)--Antiquities.

Sligo (Ireland : County).

Connacht (Ireland)--History.

Connacht (Ireland).

Sligo (Ireland : County)--History.

Ireland--Connacht.

Ireland--Sligo (County).

Genre:

local histories.

History

Local histories.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

285 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2023.

Summary:

Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse and high curtain walls, is one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. Constructed in the late fourteenth/early fifteenth century by the O?Garas, the castle functioned as a centre of their lordship of Coolavin.0This study of Moygara Castle marshals various fields of expertise ? history, archaeology, architecture, geography, genealogy, geophysical survey and DNA analysis ? to provide much-needed information about life in later-medieval Gaelic Ireland.

Contents:

Foreword / P.J. O'Neill

Introduction: Moygara Castle and the O'Garas of Coolavin / Kieran O'Conor

Moygara Castle: a history / Anne Connon

Moygara castle: a siting and map regression study / Phyl Foley and Kieran O'Conor

An architectural description of Moygara Castle / Rory Sherlock and Kieran O'Conor

Moygara Castle: the wider context / Rory Sherlock, Paul M. Kerrigan and Kieran O'Conor

The O'Gara dynasty through time and place / Maura O'Gara-O'Riordan and Máire Nì Chearbhaill

Moygara Castle: the topographical and geographical surveys / Kevin Barton

Excavations at Moygara Castle, 2013-17: preliminary results / Christopher Read

Dating the mortars of Moygara Castle / Jason Bolton

Moygara Castle through time Kieran O'Conor

Appendix One: A listing and description of the land denominations of the half-barony of Coolavin on a parish-by-parish basis as found in sixteenth- to nineteenth-century sources / Anne Connon

Appendix Two: The regional affiliations of Killaraght / Anne Connon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846827976

1846827973

OCLC:

1120194970

Publisher Number:

99996610830