Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Brackloon (Athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (Athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- RO039-079----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A caslte was held by Dowaltagh O'Connor in 1585 (Freeman 1936, 163) at Brackloon in Ballintobber barony (RO021-088----), but a castle had been lost by Myles Cavanagh to Irish rebels by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 117) and a house is drawn on Petty map in OSL. Not encountered.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Freeman, A.M. (ed.) 1936 The Compossicion Booke of Conought. Dublin. Stationery Office.
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.
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