Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cartron (athlone North By., Lismaha Ed),cloonlaughnan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (athlone North By., Lismaha Ed),cloonlaughnan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- RO044-102----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle is marked on the Strafford / 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch composite map in NLI at Cartron. Cartron is now a small townland of 202 acres (c. 80 ha), but a castle is not known there locally. This territory is marked Clundaghnon on the Strafford map of c 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (351)) and extends from the River Suck on the N side of a small stream. Today it is occupied by the townlands of Cloonlaughen and Cartron. Cartron would be a good estimation of where it was sited but, needless to say, the house or 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.