Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Tirlickeen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tirlickeen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF022-072001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1406 the annals recorded that the ‘castle of Tír Leicín was built by Ross son of Conchobhar son of Cathal Ó Fearghail’ (Ó Hinnse 1947, 181). The 1641 depositions state that John Farrell, along with others, ‘had taken up his castle; Great house [LF022-072----] & houses off office within the Bawen [LF022-072002-]’ at Tirlickeen (TCD, MS 817, fol. 277v). A tower-house type castle is depicted in ‘Tirelickin’ on an early 17th-century map of Rathcline barony (BL Cotton MS Augustus I.i.48). Its precise location has not been identified. It may have been located on or near the site of the 17th-century house (LF022-072---) and bawn (LF022-072002-). An architectural fragment (see LF022-072004-) that has been reused in the doorway of an outhouse, which is to the NE of the now-levelled, late 18th-century house that was built by Lord Annaly (Mason 1819, vol. 3, 339) c. 850m to the NW and named ‘Tirlickeen House’ on the OS 6-inch maps,’ may have come from this possible tower house.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 June 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)
Mason, W.S. 1814-19 A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland, 3 vols. Dublin. Faulkner-Press.
Ó hInnse, S. (ed.) 1947 'Mac Carthaig's Book', Miscellaneous Irish Annals (AD 1114-1437). The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.