Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Bellanagare, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellanagare
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gortnacushlaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cushlaun (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.83554, -8.38036
- SMR number
- RO015-050----
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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
Marked similarly on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a level landscape overlooking the S-N Owennaforeesha river to the W. In 1635 the castle of Bellanagare was owned by Ellinor viscount Dillon, the widow of Theobold Dillon (O'Sullivan W. 1958, 6). Described as a large chimney in the remains of a wall (L c. 3.5m; T c. 2.4m) (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 74; OS Name Books). A cairn of building rubble, locally described as containing brick, was removed c. 1980, and nothing is now visible at ground level. The architectural fragments (RO015-048003-) at Bellanagare Castle may be from here. Archaeological testing (01E0072) failed to reveal any associated features (Read 2003a, 354), and archaeological testing (08E0312) c. 160m to the WSW on the other side of the stream failed to produce any related archaeological material (Purcell 2011b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20th June 2011
References
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.
Read, C. 2003a Bellanagare: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 353-4, No. 1110. Bray. Wordwell.
Purcell, J. 2011b Bellanagare. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 303, No. 1021. Dublin. Wordwell.
O'Sullivan, W. 1958 The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.