Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rahugh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahugh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM038-040----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Rahugh Castle has not been identified. Not marked on the 1655 Down Survey parish map of Rahugh. Described in the terrier as following; ‘In it stands the walls of a castle and a church at Rahugh’ (NLI, MS 723-4) which in 1640 stood on lands belonging to Rosse Geoghegan who is described as an Irish Papist' (ibid.). The castle was probably located in the vicinity of Rahugh Church (WM038-041----).
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
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.