Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloonsellan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonsellan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- RO040-056----
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is a reference to the people of Breifne burning a fortress of Felim O' Conor at Cloonsellan in 1261 (Graham 1988, 30; Lynn 1986, 101; ALC, vol. 1, 441). It was not encountered, although perhaps the church (RO042-011----) was intended.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Graham, B. 1988 Medieval timber and earthwork fortifications in western Ireland. Medieval Archaeology 32, 110-29.
ALC - The Annals of Lough Cé: a chronicle of Irish affairs, 1014-1690, ed. W.M. Hennessy (2 vols., London, 1871; reflex facsimile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1939)
Lynn, C.J. 1986 Some 13th-century castle sites in the west of Ireland: note on a preliminary reconnaissance. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 40, 90-113.