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Castle - unclassified

Aharney, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Aharney, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Aharney
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle (in Ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.30071, -7.57511
SMR number
OF016-005001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Not visible at ground level. Depicted as 'Castle in ruins' on first edition of the OS 6-inch map (Loeber 1988, vol. 1, 5-6). Site visited in 1974 by Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society and described as ' in NW corner of a field known as the 'castle garden'. Virtually no remants of castle though a wall surrounding the field (castle garden) is made of a large no. of stones which may have been plundered from the castle site' (OHAS files 1974-5).

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

Loeber, R. 1988 Field notes and references for Co. Offaly Sites. Vol. I-V. Unpublished.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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