What is recorded here

One low hill beside Currygrane Lough still carries the castle, town and lands named in a 1620 grant, though the exact stones have slipped from the land. A map made nearby marks the place, and an older rental book receives payment from it, but no clear ruin remains for a pointer. The town may have worn itself into fields, roads or memory.

In 1518 the rental book of the earl of Kildare records a payment of 13s 4d from ‘Castel Broke’ (Mac Niocaill 1992, 274). It is mentioned in 1620 in a land grant to Edmund Nugent Fitz Piers, which includes the ‘castle, town and lands of Castlenebrock’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 468). It is depicted on a low hill overlooking Currygrane Lough on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47). Its precise location has not been identified. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 October 2012

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