What is recorded here
The fortified house that was known as Essex castle (MO031-034----) was built by the second earl of Essex in 1628-33, and became the core of Carrickmacross town. A drawing of the castle from 1734 and published by Shirley (1845, 112) shows the castle overlooking the river with a two-arched bridge, a mill and a well…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO031-105
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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