What is recorded here

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 an earlier castle (LF019-070001-) and that the house was subsequently added in the 17th century. The house may be that noted by Nicholas Dowdall in 1682 as that of ‘John Kerr Dean of Ardagh' who 'built a fair house at Druing’ (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 210). The house is named 'Drumming old' on the OS Fair Plan and is depicted as an unroofed rectangular structure aligned NNW-SSE. It has been levelled and no visible surface trace of it or the castle survives. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 January 2013

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