Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Roosky (monaghan By., Monaghan Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roosky (monaghan By., Monaghan Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24780, -6.96873
- SMR number
- MO009-060013-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle (MO009-060003-) was being built at Monaghan after 1604 by Sir Edward Blayney using material derived from the Franciscan friary (MO009-060002-). It is not represented on the Bartlett map of the town of 1602-03, but it is shown on a map of the town, probably c. 1611-13 and now held in Trinity College Dublin (Ms 1209 (32)), which was illustrated by Ó Gallachair (1962, 145). It shows the castle within a rectangular bawn (B) with a gate at the N and bastions at the NW and SE angles. South of the castle and within its curtilage the map shows gardens and fish ponds. In 1835 the site of the castle was pointed out as being on the Diamond opposite Glasslough St. (Herity 2012, 175) followed by Lewis (1837, 2, 384), but this structure was probably at the N side of the bawn, which would agree with the map of 1611-13. Archaeological excavations (96E0025; 96E0293) in the area to the SW failed to provide any evidence of the castle (Swan 1997a, 1997b).
See attached image of the plan of c. 1611-13 (MO009-060_2a copy) where it is item 'B'
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 June 2018
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2012 Ordnance Survey Letters: Londonderry, Fermanagh, Armagh-Monaghan, Louth, Cavan-Leitrim. Dublin, Fourmasters Press
Ó Gallachair, Rev. P. 1962 The 1641 war in Clogher. Clogher Record, vol. 4, No. 3, 135-47.
Swan, R. 1997a Dawson Street / Dublin Road, Monaghan. Urban. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 90, No. 317. Bray, Wordwell
Swan, D. L. 1997b Town centre carpark development, Dublin Road, Monaghan. Urban. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 90-1, No. 318. Bray, Wordwell
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