Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloghballybeg, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghballybeg
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Old Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.81657, -6.97711
- SMR number
- CV040-005----
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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
Situated on a slight rise on W shore of Mullagh Lough. An O'Reilly castle built in 1485, granted to King James in 1605 and subsequently repaired as the manor house of Sir William Taaffe's plantation estate. It was abandoned during the Cromwellian period. No visible remains at ground level. (Davies 1947a, 98-9)
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. 1947a The castles of county Cavan. Part 1. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 74-100.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.