Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Kilphierish, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilphierish
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM010-021----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Dorosnekilly Castle has not been identified within the townland of Kilphierish. Castle type building depicted on the 1654-9 Down Survey map of Piercetown parish (NLI, MS 723-4) which is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Building depicted in 'Deriniskill' on 1654-9 Down Survey map of Rathconrath barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map of Piercetown recorded that improvements 'on Clunygrosse & Derriniskill on each a House' (ibid.) The referenc to the recent improvements would suggest that this building may have been built as a fortified house in the early 17th century.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 October 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.