What is recorded here

Grange More was a four-storey fortified house belonging to the Phelans when the Down Survey mapped it. Three-foot walls, port holes and lozenge-shaped chimneys suggest a family that expected trouble and answered it with stone. The land has taken the building back, leaving no surface trace for anyone to touch or judge.

A ruined castle showed on the Down Survey barony map. An early seventeenth century four storey castellated house belonging to the Phelans (Carrigan 1905, 132). In undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'The 'Castle' or rather castellated house of Grangemore, is a four-storeyed building of the beginning of the 17th century. The walls are 3 ft. thick; the doors are defended by port holes; the chimney stacks are lozenge-shaped' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 132) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

The castle at Grange More was an early seventeenth-century four-storey castellated house owned by the Phelan family. It is remembered as part of the historical landscape of the barony, as recorded in the Down Survey and noted by Carrigan in 1905.

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