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On a low rise in pasture with good views in all directions. In 1396 the annals recorded an ‘attack by the Earl of March with Galls and Gaels on Clann Sheáin Í Fhearghail’ during which ‘he burned Tulach with its castle’(Ó Hinnse 1947, 175). In 1570 this was the residence of Faghne O’Farrell, also known as O’Farrell Bane’ (Farrell 1891, 28-9). In 1621 Fergus Farrall was granted ‘The castle and lands of Tully’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 538), which formed the manor of Tully. A castle is depicted in this townland on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47). Named ‘Castle ruins’ on the OS Fair Plan, where it is depicted as a walled rectangular structure with a gap in the NE wall. A rectangular enclosure shown immediately to its SW may be an associated bawn (LF015-016002-). Of the castle, the OS Name Book noted that ‘Only some old walls remain’ (OSNB, Granard parish, 1836-7, book 11, 231). No visible surface trace survives. A possible motte and bailey (LF015-016001-) lie c. 30m to the S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 9 October 2012
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