Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Abbey Land, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey Land
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CV020-055006-
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle was built by Walter, Patrick and Thomas Brady in Cavan town sometime before its destruction by Phillip O'Reilly (CSPI 1592-6, 541-2) in 1596. A representation of same on Netherclift's plan of Cavan (c. 1593) suggests that it was a tower house. Rebuilt (CSPI 1600, 420) and referred to in 1601 as the castle of Walter and Thomas Brady (Hunter 1971, 68). No visible remains at ground level. (Davies 1948a, 101; Bradley and Dunne 1989a, 41-42)
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
Bradley, J. and Dunne, N. 1989 Urban archaeological survey - county Cavan. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.
Hunter, R.J. 1971 Towns in the Ulster Plantation. Studia Hibernica, 28-60.
Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland, 1509-73 [etc.] (24 vols., London 1860-1911).