Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Newtownbond, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtownbond
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72473, -7.68121
- SMR number
- LF014-043001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a possible motte (LF014-043----). An early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47) depicts a castle on the summit of a motte. An Inquisition taken in 1604 recorded that Lyshagh Duffe O’Ferrall was found guilty of treason and seised of the ‘castr de Newton’ (Anon. 1826, Inq. 2 Jac 1). It was granted to Mary, Lady Delvin and her son Sir Richard Nugent, Baron of Delvin in 1605 (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 74). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 November 2012
References
Anon. 1826 Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum, repertorium, vol. I. Dublin. George and John Grierson and Martin Keene, Printers.
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)
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)
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.