What is recorded here

Caltragh Castle stood twenty metres long on a low pasture rise in County Longford before men levelled it into nothing. The Ordnance Survey recorded only foundations in 1837, yet the village still points west toward the ghost shape buried beneath grass. A castle can disappear completely while its name remains sharp enough to cut memory.

On a low, natural rise in pasture. Named 'Caltragh Castle' on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In 1836-7 the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books for the parish of Cashel in the barony of Rathcline recorded that the ‘ruins of an old castle are to be seen at the west end of the village’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 12). The Ordnance Survey recorded that the building known locally as ‘Caltromore Old Castle was ‘about 1 chain [20m] long by about ½ a chain [10m] broad. Nothing remains but the foundations’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 13). It has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 June 2016

Caltragh Castle was likely built in the late medieval period, possibly by a local Gaelic family or minor noble lineage in the Cashel area. It is remembered as a historical landmark associated with the broader defensive and territorial landscape of the region during the 15th or 16th century.

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