Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Moyvore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyvore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM017-060----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Moyvore Castle has not been identified. Moyore village was visited in 1983 but no remains of any castle was identified at this location. On the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Templepatrick parish the castle is depicted as a tower house type structure with 17th century house added on to side of castle (NLI, MS 723-4). On the Down Survey map a tall chimney stack is depicted rising from the gable of the house which appears to have been built onto one side of the castle. The terrier of parish map recorded that 'The Improvements hereon are on Moyvore a Castle' (ibid.). In 1641 this castle was in the possession of Garret Fox who is listed as an Irish papist' (ibid.). The castle is not indicated 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.