Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Liberty, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liberty
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Liberty Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Liberty Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.35517, -8.07100
- SMR number
- RO054-019----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A castle in a ‘moss’ or bog in the area S of Derrymacky (Derrylagh?) is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636, and all this area was owned by the Bishop of Meath in 1641 and the 1660s (Simington 1949, 62, Moycarn). A small structure (dims c. 5m x c. 5m) is marked on the 1837 and 1924-5 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in Gothic lettering as ‘Liberty Castle’ on both. Situated on a level landscape. The featureless E wall (L 4m) and adjacent part of the N wall (L 2m) survive (T 1m; max. H c. 4.5m) of a rectangular structure (ext. dims 8.6m E-W; 6.5m N-S), traces of whose W and S walls (H 0.35m) are visible beneath a rubble cairn.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.