Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Fuerty, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fuerty
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- RO039-082001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
A stronghold of Richard Brerton at Fuerty had been burnt by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 118) and is listed by Loeber (1991, map). A castle and house are shown on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949). The castle was not encountered.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1949 Books of survey and distribution. County of Roscommon. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Loeber, R. 1991 The geography and practice of English colonisation in Ireland from 1534 to 1609. Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, No. 3.
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.