Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Icehouse
Knockdrin (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdrin (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.57238, -7.29934
- SMR number
- WM012-178----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The townland of Knockdrin was formerly known as Monelea as depicted on the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Rathconnell parish (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1641 the lands of Monelea belonged to Andrew Tuite who is listed in the Down Survey as an 'Irish Papist'. A medieval castle is depicted standing beside a medieval roadway close to the River Gaine in the N quadrant of the townland.
Situated on a ridge in trees in Knockdrin Demesne. A circular-shaped mound (H. 1m) with a central rectangular hollow, roughly lined with stones (diam. 7.8m N-S; 5.8m E-W). Possibly the remains of an ice house or folly. Mistakenly recorded on the revised 1911 ed. OS map as the ruins of a castle.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.