What is recorded here

Cloondara is a lost castle island beside the Shannon where Clonleman castle and a church disappeared before modern memory. Lewis still saw the ruins in 1837, while Gray recalled Castletown and the castle around the bridge in the nineteenth century. The water, tide and time may have taken what people once built, named and forgotten.

Described by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 374) as ‘the ruins of Clonleman castle’ on the island of ‘Clondra’ and situated near the remains of the church (LF013-018----). Gray (1943, 23) noted that a ‘hamlet called Castletown stood on the island [Cloondara] near the Shannon at the Longford end of the Tarmonbarry bridge. The ruins of a castle called Clonleman still remained here about a hundred years ago and is very possibly the same as the Clenlonan which is mentioned in one of the Patent Rolls’. Its precise location has not been identified. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 October 2012

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