Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Clonearl Demesne, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonearl Demesne
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Leicesters Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leicesters Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.31928, -7.29404
- SMR number
- OF010-026001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Castle built c. 1550 and occupied by the Leicester family (R. Loeber pers. comms.). Remains now consist of low banks and shallow fosses with no masonry showing.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.