Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballintober (rock), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober (rock)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF023-127----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1621 William McFergus Farrall, under the commission for the Plantation of Longford, was granted land that included the ‘castle, town and lands of Ballintober and the lands of Agheglass’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 537). On the Down Survey (1655-6) maps it is depicted as a tower house-type castle on the map of Moydow barony (NLI, MS 719) but on that of Taghsheenode and Moydow parishes (ibid.) it is shown as a two-storey house in the NE part of Ballintober, near the townland boundary. Its precise location has not been identified but an 18th-century house (LF023-022----) in this area may have been built on its site.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 September 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.
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)