Gallagh castle

Irish Stones · 31-03-2014 09:50AM #1

Hi, I was reading a page in a website and it said something about the ruins of Gallagh castle.
So I searched the web for it and found a page that listed a number of castles, all of them belonged to the O'Kelly family. It was quite an interesting article.
Well, it seems I can't find that page anymore... but what I'd like to ask you is whether any of you knows where these ruins are.
Thanks a million!

Das Kitty · 31-03-2014 12:09PM

Irish Stones wrote: »

Hi, I was reading a page in a website and it said something about the ruins of Gallagh castle.
So I searched the web for it and found a page that listed a number of castles, all of them belonged to the O'Kelly family. It was quite an interesting article.
Well, it seems I can't find that page anymore... but what I'd like to ask you is whether any of you knows where these ruins are.
Thanks a million!

You're not thinking of Grallagh Castle by any chance? It's in Tipp.

Irish Stones · 31-03-2014 12:21PM

Das Kitty wrote: »

You're not thinking of Grallagh Castle by any chance? It's in Tipp.

Hi Das Kitty,
No, I mean Gallagh Castle in co. Galway. It's part of the history of the O'Kelly family who owned other castles in the same area, like Monivea and Garbally.
Unfortunately I can't find that webpage where they were all listed with a small photo along with a short description each.
Thank you!

bonzodog2 · 31-03-2014 12:43PM

http://books.google.ie/books?id=ZZmJfoiaZi0C&pg=PA687&lpg=PA687&dq=gallagh+castle+ireland&source=bl&ots=VTSsLkFq02&sig=dWl7adJ1mHz3wvn7_b9OEZhk37A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8FI5U67gNOOv7QbqmIAg&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=gallagh%20castle%20ireland&f=false

suggests it was renamed to Castle Blakeney and is situated between Mount Bellew and Ballinasloe

http://books.google.ie/books?id=iI0jwZZ-7TEC&pg=PA290&lpg=PA290&dq=gallagh+castle+ireland&source=bl&ots=8VjOqHROWo&sig=dQK0ox5b4eBQZ4oV4jkeOErV8LI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8FI5U67gNOOv7QbqmIAg&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=gallagh%20castle%20ireland&f=false seems to agree

https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=castleblakeney+ireland&ll=53.429992,-8.478699&spn=0.464746,1.042328&client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&hnear=Castleblakeney,+County+Galway&gl=ie&t=m&z=10

Irish Stones · 31-03-2014 12:59PM

Thank you Bonzodog2,
Yes, the two documents say the same thing, but the first link says something about a castle, called Ffrench Castle, and from the images that I find with Google it's not a ruined castle.
Anyway I will start from that clue and search if there's a ruinous castle in the same area.
Thanks!

bonzodog2 · 31-03-2014 01:02PM

http://www.blakeneyfamily.org/castle.htm

Irish Stones · 31-03-2014 01:14PM

Thank you again, Bonzodog2, now I have something

I keep wondering what happened to the website that I found about one month ago...

bonzodog2 · 31-03-2014 01:33PM

Maybe have a look through your browser history

Irish Stones · 31-03-2014 02:35PM

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Maybe have a look through your browser history

I did, but no success. It seems to me that I dreamt it

I remember a very basic webpage, almost homemade, with five photos a bit larger than a thumbnail on the left and some lines of description on their right.
The URL contained the name O'Kelly in Irish (oceallaigh).

Irish Stones · 31-03-2014 10:24PM

I found the website I was looking for, at last

http://kellyirishclan.com/index.php?route=news/news&news_id=86

I was partially wrong, in such that Kelly was the name of the clan or family related to the castle, but no Gallagh castle is mentioned in that website.
So apparently I mixed up the information from two different pages with little in common. I started from Garbally castle, of the O'Kelly family. It was destroyed by the Cromwell's army along with other castles of the same family, Gallagh was among them. Another castle involved was the one at Clooncureen, that led me to that link.
What is real strange is that the link isn't in the history of my browser

Thanks for your patience

Gallagh castle

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