Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cong South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cong South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tonacashlan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toinacashlan
- Coordinates
- 53.54045, -9.28823
- SMR number
- MA120-053003-
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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
Castle of Edmond of Cong in 1570 (Neary, 1938, 45). Local tradition points to an area, known locally as Tonacashlan beside abbey (MA120-053001-), as being site of castle. No visible surface trace.
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. 688.
Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.