What is recorded here

Multyfarnham parish contained three castles, including Rathganny, which belonged to Andrew Nugent. Rathganny has vanished from every later map, leaving behind only a rectangular earthwork near the old church. The survey named it, but the land forgot it.

The precise location of 'Rathganey Castle' has not been identified. This castle belonging to Andrew Nugent an 'Irish papist' was depicted on the 1654-9 Down Survey map of Multyfarnham parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. The terrier of the Down Survey map of Multyfarnham parish stated that there was in the parish 'the castles of Multifernan Rathgany & Moninstowne' (ibid.). An area marked on the RMP map of Co. Westmeath was inspected but no surface remains of any castle were identified at this location. Close to this location there are the remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 which may mark the site of this castle. The castle is depicted on the Down Survey map as located W of the church (WM006-061----) of Multyfarnham in the area that roughly corresponds with ringfort (WM011-030---) and the rectangular-shaped earthwork visible on the Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 October 2016

Rathganny Castle was held by Andrew Nugent, an Irish papist, in the mid-17th century. It is remembered primarily from its depiction on the 1654–1659 Down Survey map, which records English colonial landholdings in Ireland.

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