Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Newcastle, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF027-050----
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The National Monuments Service's description
This castle, which may have been built by the Petit family in the 13th-century (O’Conor and Parker 2010, 86), was attacked and burnt by Robert the Bruce in 1315 (Orpen 1920, vol. 4, 173-4). In 1406 the annals recorded that ‘Caisleán Nua was taken by the family of Conchobhar son of Cathal [Ó Fearghail] and the family of Tomás son of Cathal Ó Fearghail’(Ó Hinnse 1947, 183). An entry in the rental book of the earl of Kildare, in the first half of the 16th century, notes the payment of 20s rent for the ‘New Castell’ (Mac Niocaill 1992, 274). The castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26) but its precise location has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 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)
O'Conor, K. and Parker, C. 2010 Anglo-Norman settlement in Co. Longford. In M. Morris and F. O'Ferrall (eds.), Longford: history and society, 75-99. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Mac Niocaill, G. (ed.) 1992 Crown surveys of lands, 1540-41: with the Kildare rental begun in 1518. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Ó hInnse, S. (ed.) 1947 'Mac Carthaig's Book', Miscellaneous Irish Annals (AD 1114-1437). The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
Orpen, G.H. 1911-20 Ireland under the Normans (1169-1216), 4 vols. Oxford. Clarendon Press.