What is recorded here

Gorey Fort and unnamed castle towers still dot the Mill Lands map, preserving a lost cluster of buildings that time has swallowed. The castle resists identification, denying even its own townland name, while the surveyed towers remain fixed in stone and ink. It is a ghost in the archive, present enough to mark but absent enough to hide.

A few towers representing castles are marked on the Down Survey (1654-5) map of Kilmakillogue parish near Gorey. Its location, The Down Survey map of Kilmakillogue parish (1656-8) shows Gorey as a rectangular walled feature with 'Gorey Fort' and some towers representing castles somwhere in the vicinity. This castle remains unlocated and even its townland name, is not known. See the attached section from the Down Survey barony map (N at top right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 March, 2012 Amended: 14 May, 2014

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