Intended is to provide a casting roll having an outer periphery capable of being efficiently cooled.
The casting roll has a roll body on which side weirs 11 abut, short tube-shaped supports 13 each coaxially with and protruding from the roll body 12, a stub axle 14 fitted into the support 13, a sleeve 15 fitted over the support 13 and a flange 16 contiguous with the stub axle 14 and abutting on the sleeve 15 on a side away from the roll body 12. The roll body 12 is formed with longitudinal cooling passages 17 passing through the roll from one end to the other end of the roll as well as radial cooling passages 18 each adjacent to a corresponding end of the roll and extending from an inner periphery of the roll to a corresponding longitudinal cooling passage 17. A plug 19 is fitted into each end of the longitudinal cooling passages 17 and abuts on the sleeve 15. With distance T3 between the longitudinal cooling passages 17 and the outer periphery of the roll body 12 being reduced as much as possible, cooling water W is passed through a surficial portion of the roll body 12.