Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloonglasny Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonglasny Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyellia Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.85281, -8.04300
- SMR number
- RO017-143002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Three of the four named owners of land in the ‘6 Quarters of Clonglassney’ in 1641 were of the Birne family, the fourth being Joan Ny Conroy (Simington 1949, 86-88), but there is no record of a castle. However, a castle is represented as a hollow rectangular structure (dims c. 20m x 20m) inside the perimeter of the large enclosure (RO017-143001-) at NE only on the 1911 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as 'Ballyellia Castle' in gothic lettering. No feature is visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 November 2018
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1949 Books of survey and distribution. County of Roscommon. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.