Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballynacarrow (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarrow (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM017-110----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Ballynacarrow Castle has not been identified. The castle is depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Rathconrath parish where it is depicted as a tower house type structure standing close to the SW shoreline of Mount Dalton Lough (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Rathconrath parish stated there was in 'Rathconrath a Castle' standing on lands belonging to Nicholas Dalton (ibid.). The castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. The location marked on the Westmeath RMP map was based on the 17th century Down Survey map which was superimposed onto the OS 6-inch map. This area was visited in 1983 and no surface remains of any castle site was discovered in this area.
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.