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Castle - tower house

Brockagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Brockagh, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brockagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined, Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.56622, -7.33613
SMR number
WM012-173----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Brockagh Castle situated on a low natural hill which forms part of a long N-S ridge, in undulating grassland, with good views in all directions. Rectangular building aligned NE-SW depicted as an upstanding structure on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map only the SW gable is shown as standing in the centre of sub-circular shaped enclosure (CUCAP BGH102) which is not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map.
The ruins of a rectangular structure (approx. dims. 11m E-W x 7m N-S) aligned on a NE-SW axis built of roughly dressed mortared limestone, with a slight base batter standing in the centre of a sub-circular shaped enclosure (WM012-173001-). Only the SW wall survives upstanding (approx. H 3m) and has a single window in the centre of the wall. Elsewhere the outline of the castle is visible as low grass covered wall footings. The corners of the castle are rounded in a similar fashion to Carrick Castle (WM011-012----). The terrier of the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Mullingar parish listed Andrew Tuite as the owner of the lands of Brockagh in 1641 (NLI, MS 723-4).

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 9 March 2018

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.

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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