What is recorded here

Arthur Keating held a castle at Dunganstown in 1641, an ownership stripped and forgotten before the Civil Survey recorded it. The castle vanished without a trace, leaving only a house marked on the Down Survey map and a name preserved in a single line. Whatever Keating built or inherited, the land kept it longer than memory did.

According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) a castle at Dunganstown as well as 240 acres in Dunganstown, 120 acres in Ballykelly, 60 acres in Whitechurch, and 60 acres in Poulmaloe, all in Whitechurch parish, were owned by Arthur Keating, an Irish papist, in 1641 (Simington 1953, 183-4, 193). It is the only reference to this castle which remains unlocated, although a house is marked on the Down Survey map at Dunganstown. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload:13 September, 2012

The castle in Dunganstown was held by Arthur in the mid-17th century, as recorded in the Civil Survey of 1654–56. It is remembered as part of the extensive landholdings associated with the individual or family during the turbulent period of Confederate Ireland and Cromwellian conquest.

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