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Castle - unclassified

Kevit Upper Or Castlecosby, County Cavan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Kevit Upper Or Castlecosby, County Cavan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kevit Upper Or Castlecosby
County
Cavan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle Cosby
Latest-edition OS map
Castle Cosby
Coordinates
53.95818, -7.41950
SMR number
CV025-063001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Reputedly the site of 'Bunraskeen Castle', a 16th-century structure with two flanking towers formerly positioned at the corners of the yard of 'Castle Cosby' house (Davies 1948a, 97). All that survives is the S portion of the SW tower (int. diam. c. 2.2m) built of roughly coursed limestone masonry. Late medieval stone head in modern dwelling-house nearby (CV025-063002-). A castle at Cavatt (73) is not marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of Kilmore parish. See this web-page accessed on 11-04/2016. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Clonmoghan&c=Cavan

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 revision: 11 April 2016

References

Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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