What is recorded here

Maurice Fitzgerald owned a castle in Creevagh Beg when he died in 1635, yet no one has found its stones. The Inny River probably washed past its walls, and the land may still hide a buried courtyard or a broken tower foot. A castle can vanish from memory while it remains inside the earth, waiting for rain to mark its shape.

A castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26) close to the S bank of the Inny River, in the S sector of the townland near the border with Rathmore. It is also depicted on the Down Survey (1655–6) map of Abbeyshrule barony (NLI, MS 719) and is listed in an Inquisition post mortem into the property of Maurice Fitzgerald in 1635 (Anon. 1826, Inq. 14 Car 1). Its precise location has not been identified. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 October 2012

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