Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Crocknahattin, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crocknahattin
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Bailieborough Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bailieborough Castle
- Coordinates
- 53.92924, -6.99315
- SMR number
- CV028-009001-
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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 and bawn was erected in the mid-17th century by William Baillie, a Cromwellian planter, on or near the site of Bailieborough Castle, which is described (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 99) as on the site of a fortification that featured in Pynnar’s survey as Tonregie and is described (ibid.) as a “vaulted castle, with a bawn 90 feet square, and two flanking towers…. This ancient castle remained still standing till within a few years, when it was pulled down to make for additions and improvements in the present house. (Davies 1948a, 108)
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.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 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.