Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The precise location of 'Rathganey Castle' has not been identified. This castle belonging to Andrew Nugent an 'Irish papist' was depicted on the 1654-9 Down Survey map of Multyfarnham parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. The terrier of the Down Survey map of Multyfarnham parish stated that there was in the parish 'the castles of Multifernan Rathgany & Moninstowne' (ibid.). An area marked on the RMP map of Co. Westmeath was inspected but no surface remains of any castle were identified at this location. Close to this location there are the remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 which may mark the site of this castle. The castle is depicted on the Down Survey map as located W of the church (WM006-061----) of Multyfarnham in the area that roughly corresponds with ringfort (WM011-030---) and the rectangular-shaped earthwork visible on the Digital Globe aerial photograph.

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.