Castle - tower house

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise in undulating grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan maps as a sub-rectilinear shaped enclosure rounded at the NW corner, delimited by a broken line, and annotated ‘Site of Fennor Castle’. All that remains are the wall footings of a square shaped structure (approx. dims. 9m x 9m), probably the remains of a tower house standing inside a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 27m). Fallen chunks of masonry and collapsed stones partly obscure the remains of what appears to be the wall footings of a tower house.
Fennor Castle is not depicted on either the 1655-9 Down Survey parish map of Rathconnell or the Barony map of Moyashel and Magheradernon (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1641 the lands of Fennor belonged to Edward Nugent who is listed in the Down Survey as an ‘Irish Papist’.

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Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 9 April 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.