Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Killinlastra, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinlastra
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69064, -7.72732
- SMR number
- LF019-011----
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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
On a low rise affording good views over the surrounding countryside. A castle-type building is indicated on an early 17th-century map of Ardagh barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.25). Named ‘Castle of Keillen’ on the OS Fair Plan. It may be the site of a house recorded by Nicholas Dowdall, in 1682, as ‘George Cunningham Esqr. Hath built a fair house at Killinlosorogh which signifies a flaming wood’ (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 210). The house has been levelled and no visible surface trace survives. The site is now partially occupied by a roadway and a farmyard.
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)
Gillespie, R. and Moran, G. (eds.) 1991 Longford: essays in county history. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.