Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Creevagh Beg, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevagh Beg
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF027-049----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26) close to the S bank of the Inny River, in the S sector of the townland near the border with Rathmore. It is also depicted on the Down Survey (1655–6) map of Abbeyshrule barony (NLI, MS 719) and is listed in an Inquisition post mortem into the property of Maurice Fitzgerald in 1635 (Anon. 1826, Inq. 14 Car 1). Its precise location has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 October 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)
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.
Anon. 1826 Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum, repertorium, vol. I. Dublin. George and John Grierson and Martin Keene, Printers.