Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Bunnamucka, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunnamucka
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Bunnamucka Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bunnamucka Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.78330, -8.12574
- SMR number
- RO023-159----
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
Marked as a U-shaped building called Bunnamucka Castle on the SE side of a NE-SW laneway on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on the crest of a low ridge. There is no other information and no feature is visible at ground level in a farmyard. Rath (RO023-160----) is c. 30m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.