Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Druming, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Druming
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65737, -7.70581
- SMR number
- LF019-070003-
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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 an earlier castle (LF019-070001-) and that the house was subsequently added in the 17th century. The house may be that noted by Nicholas Dowdall in 1682 as that of ‘John Kerr Dean of Ardagh' who 'built a fair house at Druing’ (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 210). The house is named 'Drumming old' on the OS Fair Plan and is depicted as an unroofed rectangular structure aligned NNW-SSE. It has been levelled and no visible surface trace of it or the castle survives.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 January 2013
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.
Gillespie, R. and Moran, G. (eds.) 1991 Longford: essays in county history. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 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.