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A castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Moydow barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.28) in the townland of ‘Dowclone’, which roughly corresponds to Mosstown demesne. In 1619 King James I granted William Mc Brian Murtagh ‘the castle and town or cartron of Donclone’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 450). The castle is listed again, in 1636, in the inquisition into the property of William following his death. He also possessed another ‘ruinous castle’ (LF018-006001-) in Ballyknock (Anon. 1826, Inq. 17 Car 1). Bence-Jones (1990, 211) refers to a ‘Tower-like building’ at the back of Mosstown House (LF022-052001-), which suggests the possibility that the castle was incorporated into the later house. However, the house was destroyed in 1962 and no visible surface traces of it or the castle survive. (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 65) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 November 2012

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Castle — unclassified in Mosstown (rathcline By.)

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