What is recorded here

Druming Ho stood in County Longford as a long rectangular house with a tall central tower, possibly a medieval castle later enlarged during the seventeenth century. John Nugent owned the lands when the Down Survey recorded the castle and cabins in reasonable repair. The building has since been levelled, erasing every visible trace of the tower and rooms that once shaped the local landscape.

A long, rectangular, two-storey house with a tall, roughly centrally located, projecting three-storey tower, is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Moydow barony (NLI, MS 719). It is possible that the tower represents a medieval castle to which the house (LF019-070003-) was added in the 17th century. The terrier of the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Killglasse parish (ibid.) records that there was a ‘Castle at Drumyn in reasonable repaire with some Cabbins’, the owner of these lands is listed as John Nugent, who is described as an ‘Irish Papist’ (ibid.). The house is named 'Drumming old' on the OS Fair Plan and is depicted as an unroofed rectangular structure aligned NNW-SSE; it may have incorporated the castle. The house has been levelled and no visible surface trace of it or the castle survives. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 October 2012

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