Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Kiltober (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltober (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kiltober Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kiltober Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.34350, -7.40989
- SMR number
- WM038-043----
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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
Situated on a low rise, in pasture. Kiltober Castle depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a rectangular shaped structure (overall approx. dims. 16m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) defined by a straight side to NE. Castle site now visible as a grass covered earthwork. Castle site removed more than 20 years ago (local information 27/07/1977). Castle site is visible today as a grass covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Not marked on the 1655 Down Survey parish map of Rahugh (NLI, MS 723-4) which in 1640 stood on lands belonging to Rosse Geoghegan who is described as an Irish Papist' (ibid.).
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.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.