Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilshruley, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilshruley
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF010-135----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted as a tower house-type structure on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47) close to the N bank of the Camlin River. Its precise location has not been identified. An inscribed stone (LF010-135001-), built into a gateway pier on the N side of the 19th-century courtyard associated with the now-levelled ‘Kilshruley Manor’, records that the castle was repaired by Captain Andrew Adaire in 1666. Captain Adaire was granted land under the Act of Settlement (1662) and Act of Explanation (1665) (O’Hart 1884, 372, 452). (Burke 1838, vol. 4, 756; Hayton 1996, 263)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 October 2012
References
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)
O'Hart, J. 1884 The Irish and Anglo-Irish landed gentry. Dublin. M.H. Gill and Son.
Hayton, D. 1996 The parliamentary diary of Sir Richard Cocks, 1698-1702. Oxford. Clarendon Press.
Burke, J. 1838 A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry: or, commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 vols. London. Henry Colburn.