What is recorded here
Situated in a flat low-lying position between drumlins. A house is described as Castlecarra or the castle of the rock in italic lettering on the 1835 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch map indicating the possible location of a castle. The original building, which had belonged to a family called Vaughan, was demolished in the 1960s and is said locally to have been of red brick. There is no visible surface evidence of an antiquity and no documentary evidence of one
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
Situated in a flat low-lying position between drumlins. A house is described as Castlecarra or the castle of the rock in italic lettering on the 1835 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch map indicating the possible location of a castle. The original building, which had belonged to a family called Vaughan, was demolished in the 1960s and is said locally to have been of red brick. There is no visible surface evidence…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE031-009
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- What survives
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