Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilgawny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgawny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM017-037----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Kilgawny Castle has not been identified. The castle is depicted on the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Piercetown parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Piercetowne parish recorded that 'The Improvements are on Culgany [Kilgawny] & Piercetowne (WM017-011----) on each a Castle' (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1641 Theobald Dalton, an Irish papist is listed as the owner of the lands of Culgany (ibid.). Kilgawny Castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 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.