Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Knockycosker, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockycosker
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM032-088----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The monument was inspected in 1983 and described as follows: 'A 19th century house [Knock House] and farm buildings occupy a flat area on the S bank of the River Brosna. No trace of earlier features’(SMR file). No castle is depicted at this location on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A castle was marked in this general region on the 17th century Down Survey parish map of Newtown in the barony of Moycashel (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map states that ‘there are in this three castles viz., one at Knockycosker'(SMR File). The precise location of this castle has not been identified. In 1468 the Annals of the Four Masters recorded that ‘Owney Mageoghegan was killed by one cast of a javelin in the castle of Cnoc-Ui-Chosgraigh [Knockycosker]’ (O’Donovan 1856, 1055).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 March 2013
References
O'Donovan, J. (ed. and trans.) 1856 Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Dublin. Hodges, Smith and Co.
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.