Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Toberaquill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberaquill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberaquill House
- SMR number
- WM012-145----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Toberaquill Castle has not been identified. 'Tiberquill' Castle is depicted as a tower house type fortification on the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Taghmon parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of this parish map recorded that in 1641 the castle stood on lands belonging to Richard Delamarr who is listed as an 'Irish Papist' (ibid.) The castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. There is no evidence to suggest that Toberaquill House is built on the site of the medieval castle.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 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.