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House - fortified house

Castlecoote, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - fortified house, Castlecoote, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castlecoote
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.61643, -8.29056
SMR number
RO039-061001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Ballymageraghty, a territory of the Mageraghty chieftains, was leased from the Crown in 1577 by Sir Nicholas Malby, president of Connaught, and granted to him in 1579. He built a house here, described as a castle or stone fortalice with a watermill (RO039-061004-) in 1584 (Connellan 1962-3, 4) when it was tenanted by Thomas Ruttledge (Cronin 1980, 112). Situated on a rise on the S bank of a W-E section of the River Suck at a point where the river turns S c. 60m to the E. (Conboy 1988)
Sections of two hexagonal towers (int. dim. c. 12m) survive, each consisting of one wall surviving complete to four storeys with a fireplace at each floor, and parts of the adjacent walls. The towers would have been c. 30m apart, projecting E from the main house, of which nothing survives. When Sir Charles Coote acquired the land in 1616 he built a second fortified house (RO039-061002-) just to the W.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Cronin, T. 1980 The Elizabethan colony in Co. Roscommon. In Murtagh, H. Irish midland studies: essays in commemoration of N.W. English, 107-20. Old Athlone Society.

Conboy, T. 1988 Castlecoote and Castlecoote House. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 62.

Connellan, A.M.J. 1962-3 Ballygeraghty and Castlecoote. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 30, 3-6.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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