Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Farnham, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farnham
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00184, -7.40010
- SMR number
- CV020-044001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle comprising a stone house and a bawn of sods with four flankers was erected here in the second decade of the 17th century. Parts of this appear to have been incorporated into a modern house which now occupies the site. An earlier account (Davies 1948, 112) described what must have been a flanker at the SE corner of the bawn — a two-storey strong structure with cross-vaulting over the upper floor. A tunnel (dims. 1.8m x 1.2m) roofed with slabs apparently ran outside the bawn enclosure in a northerly direction.
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.