Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Druming, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Druming
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Druming Ho. (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65737, -7.70581
- SMR number
- LF019-070001-
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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
A long, rectangular, two-storey house with a tall, roughly centrally located, projecting three-storey tower, is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Moydow barony (NLI, MS 719). It is possible that the tower represents a medieval castle to which the house (LF019-070003-) was added in the 17th century. The terrier of the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Killglasse parish (ibid.) records that there was a ‘Castle at Drumyn in reasonable repaire with some Cabbins’, the owner of these lands is listed as John Nugent, who is described as an ‘Irish Papist’ (ibid.). The house is named 'Drumming old' on the OS Fair Plan and is depicted as an unroofed rectangular structure aligned NNW-SSE; it may have incorporated the castle. The house has been levelled and no visible surface trace of it or the castle survives.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 October 2012
References
NLI, MS 719 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey of Co. Longford attested by W. Petty under date 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 22 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.