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Castle - unclassified

Castlecore, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Castlecore, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castlecore
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.56291, -7.79422
SMR number
LF026-013002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Associated with a motte (LF026-013001-). In 1518 the rental book of the earl of Kildare records payment from ‘Castell Corr 2 cartrons with the werys [LF026-013003-]’ (Mac Niocaill 1992, 275). A castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Rathcline barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.48). The remains of a short stretch of a mortared rubble wall (H 3m; Wall T 2m; L 4m) on the E edge of the summit of the motte may be the remains of this castle. (SMR file 1976)

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 2 October 2012

References

SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Mac Niocaill, G. (ed.) 1992 Crown surveys of lands, 1540-41: with the Kildare rental begun in 1518. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

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)

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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