Castle in Shanonagh, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

A house annotated as 'Shandona' on the current ed. OS 6-inch map may have been built on the site of the medieval castle of 'Sendonagh' described as a 'ruinous castle' in a land grant of 1609. In this year Sir Robert Nugent of Walshestown Castle (WM018-155----) was granted 'in Sendonagh [Shanonagh] otherwise Old-Sonday, a ruinous castle, 40 messuages, 40 gardens, and a plowland containing 140a arable great measure, 40a pasture, 40a moor, 40a bog, 40a meadow, 40a marsh' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 196).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM018-156

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