What is recorded here

Fuerty in County Roscommon held the burnt stronghold of Richard Brerton, yet a castle and house still appeared on the Strafford map around 1636. The place resists classification because its shape changed, disappeared from memory or evaded the people passing it. What remains is a gap where a building should be, marked only by names and the absence of walls.

A stronghold of Richard Brerton at Fuerty had been burnt by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 118) and is listed by Loeber (1991, map). A castle and house are shown on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949). The castle was not encountered. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Richard Brerton held a stronghold at Fuerty by 1596, which was later recorded on the Strafford map of c. 1636. It is remembered as part of the local medieval defensive and aristocratic landscape in the region.

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