Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

On a low rise in pasture with good views in all directions. In 1396 the annals recorded an ‘attack by the Earl of March with Galls and Gaels on Clann Sheáin Í Fhearghail’ during which ‘he burned Tulach with its castle’(Ó Hinnse 1947, 175). In 1570 this was the residence of Faghne O’Farrell, also known as O’Farrell Bane’ (Farrell 1891, 28-9). In 1621 Fergus Farrall was granted ‘The castle and lands of Tully’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 538), which formed the manor of Tully. A castle is depicted in this townland on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47). Named ‘Castle ruins’ on the OS Fair Plan, where it is depicted as a walled rectangular structure with a gap in the NE wall. A rectangular enclosure shown immediately to its SW may be an associated bawn (LF015-016002-). Of the castle, the OS Name Book noted that ‘Only some old walls remain’ (OSNB, Granard parish, 1836-7, book 11, 231). No visible surface trace survives. A possible motte and bailey (LF015-016001-) lie c. 30m to the S.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 9 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)

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)

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.

Farrell, J.P. 1891 History of the county of Longford. Dublin. Dollard Printinghouse.

Ó hInnse, S. (ed.) 1947 'Mac Carthaig's Book', Miscellaneous Irish Annals (AD 1114-1437). The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.