What is recorded here

Yes. An unmarked castle stood in Cloghanacody when Richard Keating of Nickolstown held it in 1640, but no entrance, yard or broken wall has been found to show where it kept its people. It may have been a small fortified house rather than a grand castle, yet even a modest castle could have changed the life of a townland by giving one family a place of warning, storage and command. The loss of its shape is not emptiness; it is an invitation to imagine how ordinary people lived around a building that stopped being visible before it stopped mattering.

According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) in 'Cloghnecody' there is 'a Castle' which in 1640 was under the proprietorship of 'Richard Keating of Nickolstown Esqr. Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 346). This castle is unlocated within the townland of Cloghanacody. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Richard Keating, an Irish Papist, held the castle at Cloghanacody in 1640. It is remembered as part of the historical landholdings documented during the turbulent period of 17th-century Ireland.

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