What is recorded here
On the Down Survey (1655-6) Parish map of Mothill, there is a house drawn in the S portion of the townland, immediately W of a castle (KK010-118001-), N of the Dinin River. The terrier accompanying the map records, ‘There is at Esker an old Stump of a Castle with a House and Cabbins [KK010-118002-]’, with the proprietor listed as ‘Edm[on]d Purcell Ir[ish] Pa[pis]t’. The precise location of this house within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 January 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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