Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Longford Demesne, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longford Demesne
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.21534, -8.66731
- SMR number
- SL019-092001-
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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
Situated in level pasture in the demense lands of Longford House. O'Rorke (1890, 116-8) recorded that Longford was one of the chief seats of the O'Dowd's and that the Genealogical Ms. of Duald MacFirbis chronicled that the English erected 'all the bawn of Longford, except Leaba an eich bhuidhe' i.e. the bed of the yellow steed.' The castle has been removed. Its site is marked by a large rectangular platform (c. 38m N-S; c.33m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.5-2.3m). The only masonry identifiable is at the SE corner beneath a thick covering of ivy. The platform is now utilised as a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.