Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The castle of Loghill was 'wasted' in 1302 war, but castle of that name existed in late16th/early 17th century (Westropp 1906-7, 240). Mid-17th century Down Survey map shows castle on E side of Loghill inlet, approximately in position of Loghill House. According to Lewis (1837, ) castle was 'taken down by the late Mr Hewson, who built a garden wall with the material'; Hewson lived in Ouvane Cottage, later Loghill House. This house and its walled garden have recently been demolished. Only trace of any structure associated with house is short stretch of walling (L c. 5m; H 2m; Wth 0.5m) along shoreline; this unlikely to be associated with castle.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.

Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.

Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.