Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Killeter, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeter
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF009-018----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A small rectangular house with two tall chimney stacks and annotated ‘Culleghtee’ [Killeter] is depicted to the N of the fording point of the Camlin River on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Longford barony (NLI, MS 719). On the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Killoe parish (ibid.) this building is depicted as a ruinous tower house. The terrier of this map records that there stood in ‘Colloghter [Killeter] towneland a Stone House out of Repaire’ and that Garrett Farrell was the owner or chief tenant of these lands. The precise location of this house has not been identified. Aghaga Bridge now stands at the fording point marked on the Down Survey barony map.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 20 June 2012
References
NLI, MS 719 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey of Co. Longford attested by W. Petty under date 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 22 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin.