Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lismacanigan Upper, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacanigan Upper
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82345, -7.22977
- SMR number
- CV038-045----
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
Possibly built during the period of the Cromwellian Settlement by Thomas Burton. A castle is marked at Lismacanigan and Cornamucklagh (6) on the Down Survey map (1686-8) and was then in the ownership of Sir Richard and Christopher Nugent. Local tradition recalls that it was located on a low mound (Davies 1948, 106). There are no visible remains at ground level. The precise location of this feature is not known. For the Down Survey map see this web-page accessed on 12/04/2016. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Castlerahan&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: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.