Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Caltragh More, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltragh More
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caltragh Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59898, -7.94327
- SMR number
- LF021-037----
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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, natural rise in pasture. Named 'Caltragh Castle' on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In 1836-7 the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books for the parish of Cashel in the barony of Rathcline recorded that the ‘ruins of an old castle are to be seen at the west end of the village’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 12). The Ordnance Survey recorded that the building known locally as ‘Caltromore Old Castle was ‘about 1 chain [20m] long by about ½ a chain [10m] broad. Nothing remains but the foundations’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 13). It has been levelled and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 13 June 2016
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.