Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Cloghan (garrycastle By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghan (garrycastle By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Police Barrack on Site of Old Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Post Office (on site of) Castle
- Coordinates
- 53.22530, -7.88490
- SMR number
- OF022-013----
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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
Not visible at ground level. Illustrated by Grose in Antiquities of Ireland (Stalley 1991, 131). Square shaped structure three storeys high with hipped roof and large windows set in wide round arched embrasures with machicolation at roof level visible. Probable 17th-century fortified house which replaced earlier 16th-century castle. Stronghold of the Mac Coghlans destroyed in 1548 (Cooke 1875, 330).
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
Cooke, T.L. 1875 The early history of the town of Birr. Dublin. Robertson.
Stalley, R. (ed.) 1991 Daniel Grose (c. 1766–1838). The antiquities of Ireland, a supplement to Francis Grose. Dublin. The Irish Architectural Archive.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.