What is recorded here

Rathmore Castle stands beside a semi-circular platform over six feet high, where a modern cottage now occupies the ancient fort. The fifteenth-century peel tower and earthwork survived centuries of neglect until human hands buried them beneath domestic life. What remains is not ruin but transformation, the castle dissolved into the walls and floor of an ordinary home.

Rathmore Castle immediately adjacent to enclosure. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Described in 1889 as 'near Rathmore, where a massive tower and rath still stand east of the Abbey' (Westropp 1889, 232). Monument described in 1920 as, 'A small fifteenth-century peel tower [LI031-019----], on a rising ground, about a mile eastward, appears to have justified its name by being beside a semi-circular platform, over 6 feet (1.8m) high on which the modern cottage stands in tufted trees. This is evidently a fort, but quite defaced by its later uses. There is a low, straight-sided earthwork south-east from the road near it’. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 March 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 308/30 taken 13/09/2002.

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