Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Creevaghmore, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevaghmore
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF027-041----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A land grant to Gerald Murtagh in 1620/1 included ‘the castle and lands of Creevaghmore’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 466). This castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26) and is recorded in the OS Name Book as the ‘ruins of a castle’ (OSNB, Forgney parish, 1836-7, book 18, 358). Its precise location has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 November 2011
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)
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.
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)