Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Culvin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culvin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM006-020----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Culvin Castle has not been identified. This castle is depicted on 1654-9 Down Survey map of Street parish (NLI MS723-4) in an area N of the River Riffey which would place it somewhere between the river and the Mullingar-Sligo railway line. In 1641 this castle was in the possession of John Nugent who is described as an 'Irish Papist' (ibid.). The terrier of the Street parish map stated that in this parish there were '3 Runious Castles' (ibid.).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 January 2017
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.