Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kellybrook (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellybrook (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.55071, -8.07154
- SMR number
- RO042-102001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a broad NW-SE flat-bottomed valley. A small castle at the NE edge of Tibberdan, which would include Kellybrook, is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636, and Christopher Jones of Caldragh owned 307 acres there in 1641 but this had passed to William Handcock by 1662 (Simington 1949, 115, Athlone (262)). This is a grass-covered cairn of rubble (dims 19.6m NNE-SSW; 17m WNW-ESE; max. H 2.6m) with one wall visible (L 3m T 0.75m) and a large piece of masonry is protruding from the mound (H 2.25m). It is within an oval grass-covered enclosure (RO042-102002-) (dims 90m NE-SW; 60m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3.5-4m; int. D 0.2-0.35m; ext. D 0.1m) SW-N and by a low bank (at SE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) or scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere. It has no identifiable original entrance.
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
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.