Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Conaghy, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conaghy
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18853, -7.14649
- SMR number
- MO012-046----
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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 local tradition recorded in the Schools Collection of the Irish Folklore Commission relates that the ruins of Mahon’s castle were on land then (1930s) owned by George Manly, on top of a hill in Conaghy. See this web-page accessed on 20/04/2016. http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723854/4719271 Another page records that the castle was beside a fort http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723854/4719305 There is no other record of this castle. Conagh (5) is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) map parish map, for which see this web-page http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Dartry&c=Monaghan but no structures are depicted there. No fort or castle at Conaghy is know from the OS 6-inch maps, but a fort is indicated there on William McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793) on top of a hill. The hill is easily identified but the exact positions of either the castle or ringfort are not known.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 20 April 2017
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.