What is recorded here
A castle in a ‘moss’ or bog in the area S of Derrymacky (Derrylagh?) is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636, and all this area was owned by the Bishop of Meath in 1641 and the 1660s (Simington 1949, 62, Moycarn). A small structure (dims c. 5m x c. 5m) is marked on the 1837 and 1924-5 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in Gothic lettering as ‘Liberty Castle’ on both. Situated on a level landscape. The featureless E wall (L 4m) and adjacent part of the N wall (L 2m) survive (T 1m; max. H c. 4.5m) of a rectangular structure (ext. dims 8.6m E-W; 6.5m N-S), traces of whose W and S walls (H 0.35m) are visible beneath a rubble cairn.
A castle in a ‘moss’ or bog in the area S of Derrymacky (Derrylagh?) is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636, and all this area was owned by the Bishop of Meath in 1641 and the 1660s (Simington 1949, 62, Moycarn). A small structure (dims c. 5m x c. 5m) is marked on the 1837 and 1924-5 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in Gothic lettering as ‘Liberty Castle’ on both. Situated on a level landscape.…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO054-019
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