Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballindown, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballindown
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Ballindown Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballindown Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.11913, -7.89355
- SMR number
- OF035-002002-
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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
Situated on wet marshy land on the W side of a small lake or turlough. Isolated fragments of upstanding walls survive in places which may be the remains of Ballindown Castle, no ground plan or any idea of the shape or size of the castle could be ascertained from the remains. Site of an O' Carroll castle (Cooke 1875, 25-6; O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 98, 101; vol. 2, 9-10).).
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.
Cooke, T.L. 1875 The early history of the town of Birr. Dublin. Robertson.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.