What is recorded here

No visible trace remains in Tubbrid Upper, but the missing lintel reappeared in a strange house across the road. It carried the date 1596 and belonged to Tubbrid castle, where it was returned near the third-floor fireplace. For decades it sat hidden behind a newer fire, carrying the chamber's heat into an ordinary kitchen before going home.

Carrigan (1905, 2, 371) records a chimney-piece removed from Tubbrid castle (KK013-033001-) bearing the date 1596 in relief as being located in, 'an unoccupied house, on the roadside, opposite Tubrid church'. located in a roadside house. The only house indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1900 revision is located c. 140m NNE of Tubbrid church. When inspected in 1987 the chimney-piece was concealed behind a modern fireplace. The lintel has subsequently been returned to the castle (c. 2016) and has restored to the third-floor fireplace. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 April 2020

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