What is recorded here

Indicated, Castlecoote: Ballymageraghty, a Mageraghty chieftainry, passed to Sir Nicholas Malby in 1579; he raised a stone fortalice with a watermill by 1584. Two hexagonal towers still project east from the river bank, each wall rising four storeys with a fireplace on every floor. Sir Charles Coote came later and built a second fortified house beside the first, doubling the defence line along the Suck.

Ballymageraghty, a territory of the Mageraghty chieftains, was leased from the Crown in 1577 by Sir Nicholas Malby, president of Connaught, and granted to him in 1579. He built a house here, described as a castle or stone fortalice with a watermill (RO039-061004-) in 1584 (Connellan 1962-3, 4) when it was tenanted by Thomas Ruttledge (Cronin 1980, 112). Situated on a rise on the S bank of a W-E section of the River Suck at a point where the river turns S c. 60m to the E. (Conboy 1988) Sections of two hexagonal towers (int. dim. c. 12m) survive, each consisting of one wall surviving complete to four storeys with a fireplace at each floor, and parts of the adjacent walls. The towers would have been c. 30m apart, projecting E from the main house, of which nothing survives. When Sir Charles Coote acquired the land in 1616 he built a second fortified house (RO039-061002-) just to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Sir Nicholas Malby, president of Connaught, built Castlecoote in the late 16th century after being granted the land in 1579. It is remembered as a symbol of English colonial authority in western Ireland during the Tudor period.

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