Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cornabrone, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornabrone
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LE024-058----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle is depicted as a tower at Corneabarne on the S side of a triangular lake (Corrachoosaun Lough) on the Down Survey (1657-8) map of the part of Fenagh parish within Leitrim barony. The castle is mentioned in the terrier or commentary, and according to the same source Noah O’Duigenan owned 122 acres at Corquasane and Cornaborne (No. 30). In the part of the parish in Mohill barony he owned 128 acres at Corbarke (Corrabarrack), the unknown Cororoe, and Cornegonmore (Cornagon) (No. 78) in the Mohill part of the parish. Much of the land in Fenagh parish was owned by other members of the O’Duignan family, who were bards and ollamhs (teachers) to the Conmaicne and other Gaelic families of north Connaught and north Leinster (MacNamee 1954, 630). The precise location of the castle is not known.
See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at left) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 January, 2017
References
MacNamee, Rev. J.J. 1954 History of the diocese of Ardagh. Dublin. Browne and Nolan.