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

Other author O'Conor, Kieran Denis, editor.
Format Book
PublicationDublin : Four Courts Press, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Description285 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formlocal histories.
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formLocal histories.
Genre/formInformational works.
Genre/formHistoires locales.
Genre/formDocuments d'information.
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