What is recorded here

Castle, unclassified in Glenmagoo OR Firoda Lower stands on a flat terrace above poor land, marking a boundary between human ambition and regional obscurity. Its exact identity remains unresolved, but the land still carries the shape of that uncertainty. What is missing is not importance, but clarity; the place resists easy judgement and demands patience.

On a flat terrace, commanding the W slopes of Glenmagoo, in fairly poor land. The main road c. 200m to W is known as the ‘new road’. In the NE corner of a moated site (KK005-069----) there is a raised area (dims. 7.6m N-S; 7m E-W) which may represent the remains of a castle. It would appear that this monument is the previously unlocated castle (KK005-050001-) and bawn (KK005-050002-) described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 161). According to Carrigan (ibid.) in Glenmagoo or Firoda Lower, ‘There was a strong castle here, about 200 yards east of the new road from Castlecomer to Ballyragget. If tradition be reliable it was founded by Mairgréad Ni Gheróid, the famous Countess of Ormond. Portion of the walls stood till 1824. The cellars still remain beneath the surface. The site is enclosed by a square rampart defended by a deep fosse’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 May 2017

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