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Castle - unclassified

Kilfaughny, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Kilfaughny, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilfaughny
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilfaughny Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Kilfaughny Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.50503, -7.85732
SMR number
WM022-007----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the N side of a low mound, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Kilfaughny Castle depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a narrow rectangular shaped building aligned NE-SW standing inside a series of small rectangular shaped fields. Described in 1983 as the poorly preserved remains consisting of a single section of upstanding wall (approx. L 11m; H 6-7m) that appears to be featureless, although the upper sections are obscured by a heavy growth of ivy. There is a large block of collapsed masonry and a silage pit to E. A roughly rectangular-shaped enclosure occupies the top of the mound, to the immediate S of the upstanding castle wall. A stream flows E-W approx. 10m to N of the castle. This has recently been drained, and the excavated fill built up to form a low bank on the S side of the stream.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 15 July 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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