What is recorded here

Drumcarn Ho is a lost castle in County Cavan, buried beneath a modern farmyard after appearing on Petty's Survey in 1685 as land belonging to Hugh Brady. The Saundersons may have built the house whose mortared fragments Davies recorded in a hollow in 1948, but those walls have vanished under ordinary farm life. What remains is a ghost address, a place that stopped being visible long before it stopped being remembered.

Marked on Petty's Survey map of 1685 and recorded as being part of the lands of one Hugh Brady at that time. Foundations of a house, reputedly built by the Saundersons, marked on 1836 ed. Described (Davies 1948a, 120) as comprising 'fragments of mortared walls' situated in a hollow. Site now largely covered by modern farmyard, leaving no visible remains at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 22 December 2008

Hugh Brady held Drumcarn House in 1685, and it was later associated with the Saunderson family by the 19th century. It is remembered as part of the historical landscape of the region, reflecting early landownership patterns in Ireland.

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