What is recorded here

Castle, unclassified in Bellahy may be the lost name of the surviving bastioned fort. Wood-Martin wrote about castle ruins in 1882, yet no local memory preserved that name. The distinction between a castle and a fort may have blurred on the Sligo landscape, leaving one stone angle with two possible identities.

According to Wood-Martin (1882, 82), there were ruins of a castle at Bellahy. The precise location of this castle is not known and there is no local tradition of a castle here. Wood-Martin may have been referring to the bastioned fort (SL042-029----) in Bellahy. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

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