Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Milltown (fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (fartullagh By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.44256, -7.24625
- SMR number
- WM033-019----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a natural low hillock in pasture. No surface remains visible of castle site that is located in a field known locally as 'Castle Hill' (SMR File) just N of the village of Milltownpass. Depicted as 'Site of Castle' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Marked as 'Site of Old Castle' on the OS Fair Plan parish map of the Pass of Kilbride (SMR File). A tower house type castle at ‘Miltowne’ is depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fartullagh Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map of the Pass of Kilbride states that ‘upon Miltowne Stands a Castle’ (ibid.). On this map the lands and castle of Milltown belonged to William Bremingham [Bermingham] an Irish papist and owner of the adjacent townland of Corcloon in 1640. After the Irish Confederate Wars of 1641-53 the forfeited lands of William Bermingham were granted to Nathaniel Micklethwaite who is listed as the Protestant owner of these lands in 1670.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2013
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.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.