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231. Gaeraunboy (21). Marked. Garranbuidhe (O'Donovan^ 

 O.S.L., 8, p. 250), " The yellow wood" (Fitzgerald, i., p. 253) ; locally 

 the " Yellow garden." 1583 Hugh Wall, or Falltagh, of Dunmoylin, 

 when he joined the rebellion, owned Garrenboye C. (Des. R., 69). 

 1615 Held by 01. Stephenson, of Dunmoylin, and confirmed to Eic. his 

 son (Inq. Chan., 15b and 24b ; Pat. R.). Confiscated from his represen- 

 tatives, 1655 (C.S., p. 52). 



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Fabric. — The O.S.L. only note it as " a ruin on a plain." It is an 

 oblong peel tower 30 feet by 46 feet, outside. The main wing had 

 four wooden floors covered by a stone vault ; there is a skew-loop on 

 the second floor opening at the north-west angle, and another on the 

 third floor at the north-east. There are numerous ambries and ogee- 

 headed window-slits. The end wing has the usual spiral stair with 

 doors to each story to the south-west, and five stories with small rooms 

 to the south-east. The lower rooms and top story are under vaults. 

 All the southern face and most of the side walls of this part are gone. 

 The peel stands in abawn 63 feet east and west, 82 feet north and south. 

 The walls 3 feet at top, and battered out to 6 feet below. The south 

 wall and south-west turret are levelled. Turrets with vaulted roofs 

 and 12 feet diameter, inside, remain at the three other angles. The 

 peel tower dates from about the middle of the fifteenth century.^ 



1 1 owe this plan and description (with a good photograph) to the kindness of 

 Mr. James G. Hewson, of Hollypark. 



