Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cabra, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cabra
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.91931, -6.79782
- SMR number
- CV035-011----
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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
Extant remains comprise the ruins of portion of a four-storey house of late 18th or early 19th-century date, incorporating 17th-century stonework in NE angle, especially in the lower courses. This may have been the site of a castle built by Captain Gerald Fleming in 1607 and lost during the Williamite wars. Depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) map as a large castle with two entrance gates at Cabragh (25) accompanied by a small building, perhaps a mill, on the bank of the E-W River Lagan c. 200m to the N. For the Down Survey map see this web-page accessed on 12/04/2016. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Clanchie&c=Cavan There are no visible remains of a mill building.
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: 12 April 2016
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.