Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Portanure, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portanure
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF025-006001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SSE-facing slope in pasture, overlooking Lough Ree c. 500m to the SSE. A long rectangular two-storey building with gable-ended chimney stacks, typical of a late 16th/early 17th-century fortified house, is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Rathcline barony (NLI, MS 719). On the map it is named ‘Portenure house’ and is surrounded by a small cluster of dwellings. The precise location of the house has not been identified. It may have been located within the interior of a bawn (LF025-006----) or built along its E wall - a building is shown against this wall on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Alternatively, the latter building may have been a gatehouse. No visible surface trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 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.