What is recorded here

Castlepoles hill in County Cavan still holds two competing claims for the vanished castle, one on the old road and another eighty-five metres west-southwest. Neither site shows a stone above grass now, but the shifting boundary between written fact and local memory keeps the place alive. The castle may have been a small planting marker rather than a grand home, yet uncertainty itself is a room anyone can enter.

A bawn wall of the Plantation period, constructed of stone and clay was, according to Davies, (1948a, 124-5) situated on an old road a little below the summit of Castlepoles hill. However, local tradition identifies the site of the castle as being c. 85m WSW of this (local information). There are no visible surface remains at either location. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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