Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Crover, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crover
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Crover Old Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.81587, -7.28479
- SMR number
- CV038-019----
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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
Situated on a small rocky island, c. 300m from the W shore of Lough Sheelin. Constructed in the late 14th century by Thomas McMahon O'Reilly. Davies described it as a two-storey rectangular tower with base batter, a barrel vault over the ground floor and remains of a doorway in S wall. Intramural staircases occur in E wall leading to first floor, and in N wall leading to roof level. Site is densely overgrown with vegetation.
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
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.