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In 1406 the annals recorded that the ‘castle of Tír Leicín was built by Ross son of Conchobhar son of Cathal Ó Fearghail’ (Ó Hinnse 1947, 181). The 1641 depositions state that John Farrell, along with others, ‘had taken up his castle; Great house [LF022-072----] & houses off office within the Bawen [LF022-072002-]’ at Tirlickeen (TCD, MS 817, fol. 277v). A tower-house type castle is depicted in ‘Tirelickin’ on an early 17th-century map of Rathcline barony (BL Cotton MS Augustus I.i.48). Its precise location has not been identified. It may have been located on or near the site of the 17th-century house (LF022-072---) and bawn (LF022-072002-). An architectural fragment (see LF022-072004-) that has been reused in the doorway of an outhouse, which is to the NE of the now-levelled, late 18th-century house that was built by Lord Annaly (Mason 1819, vol. 3, 339) c. 850m to the NW and named ‘Tirlickeen House’ on the OS 6-inch maps,’ may have come from this possible tower house.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 June 2012
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