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A castle is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) map in the townland of Ballymartin. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 104) Ballymartin castle, ‘stood in the “castle field,” on the bounds of Ballinvalla. Nothing remains of it now save some small mounds and traces of the foundations’. Carrigan (ibid.) states that Martin Dormer and his wife Joan Purcell lived in the castle until their deaths in 1701 and 1719 respectively, and where succeeded by Major Toby or Theobald Purcell, who died in 1747, and his wife Alice Tirwhit who were the last to live in the castle.The castle is not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1899 revision. The precise location of the castle within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 May 2017
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