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Westropp (1906-7, 196) recorded the following details about Castle Creagh (an Chaisleáin Chria / castle of clay); ' "Castle Field" and site marked. 1581 Ger. f. Edmund held Glanehaggylshoen C[astle]. (Inq. Exch., 11). 1608 Edm. MacGibbon, the White Knight, died seised of it (Inq. Chan., 17b). 1655 Glanehagilshy, a small stump of a C[astle], N. Hall or Haly, of Tooreen, sold to J. and W. Reeves (C.S., xxv., p. 7;B.D., p. 92), 1667 Confirmed to J. Reeves (Act Sett.)'. No surface remains visible, annotated 'Site of Castle ' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map with circular shaped quarry adjacent to fields annotated 'Castle Field' which are now sports fields. Castle depicted on 17th century Down Survey map of Coshlea Barony (Hib. Reg.). Tower house type castle depicted on 1654-56 Down Survey parish map of Ballylanders (NLI MS 718). The terrier of this parish recorded that Nicholas Haly of Tooreen an Irish papist was the owner of these lands upon which stood 'a Ruined Castle' (ibid.). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that on this townland there 'stands a smale stump of a Castle out of Reparation' (Simington 1938, 231). See attached Down Survey barony map and parish map of Ballylanders. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 September 2021

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Site of Castle, Castle Field — Glennahaglish

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