Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Bearvaish, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bearvaish
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- SL039-139----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A house is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map in the middle of the townland and E of the Owenmore River. Its exact location is not known. It may be the castle of Muilean Adam which was 'situated somewhere near a ford on the Owenmore at Rathmullen or Ballyneglough, but has...long since disappeared from the countryside' (MacDonagh 1936, 77). This castle of the MacDermot family, was attacked in 1463 by Mac William Burke (ibid.).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008