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The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of 'Inishteage' in the barony of Gowran, is accompanied by a terrier (NLI MS720). This terrier mentions that, 'There is in Cappagh a Stone House Ruined' and lists Henry Archer as the proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). It is possible that the building called, 'Brittas Castle' on the 6-inch OS maps, may be the house mentioned in the Down Survey.
Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 116), as, ‘In Brittawce, a subdivision of Kilkieran was another castle now also destroyed. Its site is still pointed out in the “castle field” of Brittawce, to the south-west of Kilkieran churchyard. Both these castles belonged to the Dobbins till the Cromwellian confiscations in 1653’.
The location of the castle is visible as a roughly square platform (max. dims. 28m square, H 0.5m) with low-lying wet ground to N, E and W. There are traces of an infilled fosse (Wth 3m) on the N, E and W sides. A modern road immediately to the S may truncate it.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 March 2022
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