Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballinroddy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinroddy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF019-125----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A land grant of 1607 states that the King granted to Patrick Fox of Dublin the lands of ‘Termon-Ianaigh or Corby of Ballyroddy, containing a ruinous castle, 2½ cartrons; value, 6s 4d’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 115). The precise location of the castle has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 September 2012
References
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)