What is recorded here

Castle in Tinnaslatty stood on a flat-topped bluff above a small stream valley, watching the grasslands for the Viscounts Mountgarret. Its walls were pulled apart around 1830, leaving only a field name and a hidden memory beneath the soil. The castle did not vanish so much as it stopped being visible, while the valley kept its shape and the field kept its name.

On a slight flat-topped bluff on the lower SW slopes of small stream valley, in rolling grasslands. Good views along and across the valley. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 321) refers to, 'a castle in the "Castle field" of Duncuff, but only small pieces of its walls remained in or about the year 1830, when the last traces of the building were removed. As the townland of Tinnislatty belonged to the Viscounts Mountgarret, the castle of Duncuff must have belonged to them likewise'. vestiges of a castle remaining until the 1830's. Field here known as 'Castle Field'. No visible surface indication. During fieldwork in 1987 a field in this townland, immediately S of the county boundary with Co. Laois, was identified as the castle field. The castle is not visible at ground level and its precise location within the field is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 February 2016

Built by the Norman settlers in the late 12th or early 13th century, this castle served as a strategic stronghold overseeing the rolling grasslands and stream valley, reflecting the expansion and consolidation of Norman control in Ireland.

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