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Castle - unclassified

Muff, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Muff, 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
Muff
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60141, -8.29380
SMR number
RO041-002002-

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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

A castle is marked close to the river Suck on the Strafford map of c. 1636 in Mogh (Simington 1949, Athlone (492)) where Laughlyn Mc Feogh Mc Edmund Kelly owned 230 acres in 1641 (idem. 127). It is depicted as in Moyh on Petty's map of Athlone North barony (1683). Situated at the E end of a low W-E spur, c. 150m W of a N-S section of the River Suck and within the inland promontory fort (RO041-002001-). The foundations of a rectangular structure (int. dims 7m N-S; 4.3m E-W) are visible in a slight quarry (D 0.2-0.55m).

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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