Site of Ballindown Castle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

O' Carroll castle walls stand in broken fragments beside a shifting turlough, denying every attempt to picture their shape. The marsh keeps the castle hidden, not lost, suggesting O' Carroll built there deliberately because water could erase what stone recorded.

Situated on wet marshy land on the W side of a small lake or turlough. Isolated fragments of upstanding walls survive in places which may be the remains of Ballindown Castle, no ground plan or any idea of the shape or size of the castle could be ascertained from the remains. Site of an O' Carroll castle (Cooke 1875, 25-6; O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 98, 101; vol. 2, 9-10).). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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