Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castlebrock, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlebrock
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF015-078----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1518 the rental book of the earl of Kildare records a payment of 13s 4d from ‘Castel Broke’ (Mac Niocaill 1992, 274). It is mentioned in 1620 in a land grant to Edmund Nugent Fitz Piers, which includes the ‘castle, town and lands of Castlenebrock’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 468). It is depicted on a low hill overlooking Currygrane Lough on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47). Its precise location has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 1 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)
Mac Niocaill, G. (ed.) 1992 Crown surveys of lands, 1540-41: with the Kildare rental begun in 1518. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.