Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballinlough, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlough
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF010-134----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1622, as part of the Plantation of Longford, Walter Alexander was granted the ‘castle of Ballynlagh alias Ballinlogh’ (Cal. pat. rolls., Jas. 1, 551). It is depicted as a tower house-type structure on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47). On this map another castle (LF010-029001-) is shown in the adjoining townland of Coolcor to the E. In 1641 the castle and bawn were the residence of Mathias Ffowle when it was attacked by Irish rebels (TCD, MS 817, fol. 167v). Its precise location has not been identified but Ballinlough House, which is c. 620m W of the castle in Coolcor, may have been built on its site or in close proximity to it.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 September 2012
References
Trinity College Dublin, The 1641 depositions. Dublin.
Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I - Irish patent rolls of James I: facsimile of the Irish record commissioners' calendar prepared prior to 1830, with foreword by M.C. Griffith (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1966)
British Library, Cotton Manuscripts, Augustus I. Charts of the baronies of Granard, Rathcline, Longford, Ardagh, Shrule and Moydow, County Longford. London. (microfilm, NLI p. 1364)