Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballinrobe Demesne, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinrobe Demesne
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62042, -9.22908
- SMR number
- MA118-022001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture, with River Robe 100m N. According to Knox (1908, 36) a Norman castle was erected here in the 1230's. It changed ownership many times. Transformed into a manor house before being levelled to build a military barracks in late eighteenth century, the ruins of which now occupy the site.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 681.
Date of upload: 14 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - avenueunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.