What is recorded here

Muilean Adam, a MacDermot castle near an Owenmore ford, disappeared so completely that even its exact bank is forgotten. Mac William Burke attacked it in 1463, but the river and time erased it far more thoroughly than any army. A house still appears on the 1655-6 Down Survey map in Bearvaish, perhaps marking the last shadow of that lost stronghold.

A house is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map in the middle of the townland and E of the Owenmore River. Its exact location is not known. It may be the castle of Muilean Adam which was 'situated somewhere near a ford on the Owenmore at Rathmullen or Ballyneglough, but has...long since disappeared from the countryside' (MacDonagh 1936, 77). This castle of the MacDermot family, was attacked in 1463 by Mac William Burke (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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