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In 1401 the annals record that the ‘castle of Baile Í Mhathan was begun by Muiris son of Conchobhar’ (Ó hInnse 1947, 164). In 1620 a land grant to James Mc William Ferrall included the 'castle, town [LF027-003006-] and lands of Ballymahan' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 466). Mason (1819, vol. 3, 338) noted that, during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, it was the residence of Sir James Dillon Jnr., whose lands were later confiscated by the Crown. He described it as a ‘strong castle, near a ford over the Inny, and near the present bridge [LF027-003003-]', which had ‘been long since taken down, the cellars of it remain under a house erected on its ruins’ (ibid.). Its precise location has not been identified. (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 146; Simington 1961, vol. 10, 48; Gillespie and Moran 1991, 217)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 September 2012
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