Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cordoagh (enniskeen Ed), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cordoagh (enniskeen Ed)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.90775, -6.86337
- SMR number
- CV035-016002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Probably erected by Conor O'Reilly in the 15th century, land at Muff and Cordoagh had passed to the Fleming family by 1641. Apparently the castle was abandoned after the Plantation, although it is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) map as a fortified enclosure with a house at Monagh (15), for which see this web-page accessed on 12/04/2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Clanchie&c=Cavan Although there are now no convincing visible remains at ground level, an earlier account (Davies 1947a, 100) described what may have been the remains of three walls of a bawn enclosing an irregular rectangle (dims c. 58m x c. 43.8m). The wall on the NW side, which is likely to have had the entrance, may have been removed during road construction. Local tradition associates this site with the 'Fair Green' at Muff (CV035-058----).
Date of upload: 12 April, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.