Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballynakill (coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (coolestown By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- OF011-038----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated castle within the townland of Ballynakill that is mentioned in the OS Letters of 1838 as 'Within Ballinakill Townland there is a Church (OF011-034001-) in ruins in a graveyard, and there is a tradition that at Mrs Watson's house near this old Church there was a castle which was occupied by a man named ------- Blundell' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 34).
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
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the King's County collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.