Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Pallas More, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallas More
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF027-051----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26) close to the confluence of the Inny and Rath rivers; its precise location has not been identified. It may have been one of the strongholds of the Clann Murchadha branch of the O’Ferral family who ruled over southern Longford (Verstaten Veach 2010, 58), but see also the unclassified castle (LF023-111----) in the adjoining townland of Pallas Beg. The latter has been locally identified as the possible site of this O’Farrell castle.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 November 2012
References
Veach, F. Verstraten 2010 The Ó Fearghail lordship of Anghaile. In M. Morris and F. O'Ferrall (eds.), Longford history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, 51-74. Dublin. Geography Publications.
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)