Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dangan (king), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (king)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Dangan Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dangan Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.89313, -8.03161
- SMR number
- RO011-139----
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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
Identified by John O'Donovan in the 1830s as Daingean Bona Cuilinn which was burned in 1145 (AFM vol. 2, 1079), the name Dangan (daingean) means stronghold. It was called Dangen I Beirne and had a fair on 25th May in the later 16th century. Donogh O'Birne held it in the early 17th century (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 11), and his son Donogh owned a quarter amounting to 160 acres there in 1641 (Simington 1949, 29). It does not feature in the history of the Mac Dermot clan of Moylurg (Mac Dermot 1996). It is described as the site of Dangan Castle on the 1837 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map, and iis situated on a low rise in a low-lying landscape, but no features are visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO011-138----) is c. 40m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 November 2018
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)
Mac Dermot, D. 1996 Mac Dermot of Moylurg: the story of a Connacht family. Manorhamilton. Drumlin.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1949 Books of survey and distribution. County of Roscommon. Dublin. Stationery Office.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.