Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Newtown (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- MA039-117----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Strafford Inquisition of Co. Mayo, an inquiry into landownership undertaken in 1635, lists a castle in ‘Newtowne’ (O'Sullivan 1958, 155). There is no evidence now of a castle in that townland, but there is a tower house, Cloghans Castle (MA039-088----) in the adjoining townland to S.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 April 2020
References
O'Sullivan, W. 1958 The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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