Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Creevy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF014-135----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1620, as part of the Plantation of Longford, the English Crown granted Thomas Beare ‘the castle and lands of Creeve’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 467). The castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47), close to the border with county Cavan, in an area that roughly corresponds with the location of Creevy House. However, its precise location has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 November 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)
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)