Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilcolman, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90604, -8.56309
- SMR number
- RO008-020001-
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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
There are references to the destruction of the castle of Kilcolman in 1270, 1284 and 1315 (Lynne 1985-6,103), and it was a centre of the Costelloes in 1536 (AFM vol. 5, 1427). By 1635 it was owned by Lord viscount Dillon of Castlerea and Gallen (O'Sullivan, W. 1958, 5). Situated on a low-lying landscape with a NW-SE stream immediately to the N, although it once ran to the S of the site. Described as a rectangular platform (dims 29m N-S; 27m E-W; H 1.5m), which when excavated in 1950 disclosed a perimeter wall (Wth 2m) with an outer base batter and an outer fosse (Wth 6m). There was a destroyed entrance and causeway at W (NMI file). It is no longer visible at ground level in pasture, but Kilcolman church (RO008-021001-) is c. 130m to the E. Archaeological testing (03E0115) c. 70m to the SW (Delaney 2006) and testing (03E1943) immediately to the S and W (Ryan 2007) during 2003 failed to produce any related material. Further testing (06E1062) c. 50m to the SW during 2006 had similar results (Fitzpatrick 2009c) but testing (06E1062) on the monument itself during 2012 identified portion (L 2.8m; H 1.05m; Wth 0.75m) of the base-batter of a turret (original diam. c. 3.5m) together with cairn material. See this web-page accessed on 4 December, 2014:http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Roscommon/0023376
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 4 December, 2014
References
AFM - Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters from the earliest period to the year 1616, ed. and trans. John O'Donovan (7 vols., Dublin, 1851; reprint New York, 1966)
Lynn, C.J. 1986 Some 13th-century castle sites in the west of Ireland: note on a preliminary reconnaissance. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 40, 90-113.
Delaney, D. 2006 Kilcolman: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett, (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 423, No. 1580. Bray. Wordwell.
Ryan, F. 2007 Kilcolman: no archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 378, No. 1464. Dublin, Wordwell
O'Sullivan, W. 1958 The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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