Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Killooly, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killooly
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killooly Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killooly Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.20635, -7.67017
- SMR number
- OF023-006001-
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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
On undulating land. Poorly preserved remains of a fortified house and bawn built with uncoursed limestone rubble. Only the S wall of the tower and bawn with NW circular corner tower of bawn (OF023-006002-) surviving. The only architectural features visible are the remains of a fireplace at ground and first floor level of house with the chimney stack extending beyond the external face of the fortified house. Several musket loops visible on the NW corner tower of the bawn. Probably a 17th-century fortified house with adjoining bawn similar to Kilcolgan castle (OF015-011----). May have been built by Peter Salconstall who was granted the land in 1622. (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 48, Shaw 1971, 64).
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
Shaw, Rev. A.L. 1971 Parish of Killoughy. Offaly.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.