Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Coolamber, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolamber
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Coolamber
- Latest-edition OS map
- Coolamber
- Coordinates
- 53.71017, -7.46834
- SMR number
- WM002-004----
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
The townland of Coolamber straddles the modern counties of Longford and Westmeath. Coolamber Castle depicted as a tower house type fortification on the 1654-9 Down Survey map of Moygoish Barony (NLI MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Street parish recorded that there was a ruinous castle in Coolamber which belonged to James Nugent (ibid.). This castle is also depicted on the Down Survey map of Street Parish in Co. Longford where it is depicted standing in Co. Westmeath. Coolamber Castle (LF016-018001-) now stands in Co. Longford and is located 575m WSW of Coolamber House which is a 19th century country house. No medieval castle was ever located at Coolamber House. The medieval castle of Coolamber is today located in Co. Longford. Coolamber House described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached five bay two storey house on L-shaped plan, built c.1850, with projecting cut stone tetrastyle Doric porch to centre of entrance front (east). Now out of use' (www.buildingsofireland.ie).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 November 2016
References
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.