Bunowen Castle, Co Galway  – ‘lost’ 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 49. “(Blake, Bt, of Menlough/PB1970) A dramatic but somewhat insubstantial C19 castle on the shores of Bunowen Bay, at the southwestern tip of Connemara. Now a ruin.” 

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland. Collins Press, Cork, 2010.