Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Corgreagh (lower Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corgreagh (lower Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castel Bagshaw in Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle Bagshaw (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.11995, -7.47628
- SMR number
- CV010-008----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Built by Sir Hugh Wirrall in 1618, subsequently occupied by Edward Bagshaw and thereafter by Thomas Richardson. An earlier account (Davies 1948a, 114) noted the survival of just one corner of a building which appeared to have been constructed within a hilltop rath (CV010-007----) as evidenced on the various OS eds. However this location is at variance with local tradition which places the site of the castle c. 40m ENE of the rath. No visible remains at ground level.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
References
Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.