Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Tully (moycarn By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tully (moycarn By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tully Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tully Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.32832, -8.08959
- SMR number
- RO054-033001-
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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
The castle of Tullagh had been lost to Irish rebels by Martin Lyle by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 117). A castle at Tullagh is not marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636, unless it is the castle also interpreted as now in Liberty townland (RO054-019----). The bishop of Meath owned 62 profitable acres at Tullogh in 1641 and the 1660s, but there is no mention of a castle or any other landowner (Simington 1949, 62). It is situated on a gently undulating landscape. This was a rectangular house (dims 17.6m N-S; 9m E-W) of two storeys and four bays with circular towers (ext. diam. 4m) that had gun-loops at the NW and SW angles and chimneys, each with two diamond-shaped stacks, in the N and S gables (Craig 1982, 131; Salter 1993, 45). The house was removed in the early 1990s after storm damage. Archaeological testing (07E1095) on the location produced no evidence of it (Wilkinson 2010).
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.
Cronin, T. 1980 The Elizabethan colony in Co. Roscommon. In Murtagh, H. Irish midland studies: essays in commemoration of N.W. English, 107-20. Old Athlone Society.
Craig, M. 1982 The architecture of Ireland from the earliest times to 1880. Dublin. Eason and Son Ltd. London. Batsford.
Wilkinson, F. 2010 Tully: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 417, No. 1517. Dublin. Wordwell.
Salter, M. 1993 Castles and Stronghouses of Ireland. London, Folly Publications.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.