What is recorded here

Castle stood on a tall mound above Newtownbond, catching light before the valley below. Lyshagh Duffe O’Ferrall lost it in 1604 after a treason finding, and Mary, Lady Delvin with Sir Richard Nugent received it the next year. The mound still exists though the castle has vanished, leaving behind a shape of pride, fear and forgotten rooms.

Associated with a possible motte (LF014-043----). An early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47) depicts a castle on the summit of a motte. An Inquisition taken in 1604 recorded that Lyshagh Duffe O’Ferrall was found guilty of treason and seised of the ‘castr de Newton’ (Anon. 1826, Inq. 2 Jac 1). It was granted to Mary, Lady Delvin and her son Sir Richard Nugent, Baron of Delvin in 1605 (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 74). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 November 2012

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