Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gatehouse
Kilmore (drumahaire By., Sramore Ed), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore (drumahaire By., Sramore Ed)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.26466, -8.33433
- SMR number
- LE010-037005-
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Prior to the conversion of the location into a fortified manor house by Captain Robert Parke in the early 1630s, the bawn surrounding the O’Rourke tower house was entered via a gateway in the E wall. This gateway was substantially enlarged by Parke into a three storey gatehouse. This may have served either as his primary residential unit or as ancillary space to a timber house that was placed where the current manor house is located and where he was residing until the latter’s demolition and the construction of the manor house which was fully integrated into the gatehouse (Foley and Donnelly 2012, 27).
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 390
See the attached view of the gatehouse from the interior of the bawn _1
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 6 December 2012
References
Foley, C. and Donnelly, C. 2012 Parke's Castle, Co. Leitrim: archaeology, history and architecture. Archaeological Monograph Series, No. 7. Stationery Office. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.