What is recorded here
Donaghintraine hides a castle that no one can point to. The Down Survey map from 1656 to 1658 places it a kilometre northeast of Dromore West, yet the ground keeps the name without showing the stones. Whatever it was, it resisted every later hand that tried to find it.
A building, possibly a castle, is, marked on the Down Survey barony map(1656-58) for Tireragh in the SW part of what is now Donaghintraine townland, c. 1km NE of Dromore West. The exact location remains unknown.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 November 2016
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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