Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Camlagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camlagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Camlagh Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Camlagh House (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.40200, -8.19812
- SMR number
- RO050-012----
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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
On a N-facing slope at the S edge of a bog. This is thought locally to have been built by the Newcommen family who moved here from Newcommen Castle (RO051-071----) c. 1700. The SW angle of a two-storey house (L 8.8m at S; 4.6m at W) with a brick fireplace and brick internal arches. Probably 18th-century in date. (Craig 1982, 177)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Craig, M. 1982 The architecture of Ireland from the earliest times to 1880. Dublin. Eason and Son Ltd. London. Batsford.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.