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Castle - tower house

Kiltober (Moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Kiltober, 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
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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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 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

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

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