Site of Fennor Castle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Fennor Castle left behind nine metres of buried wall and a forgotten oval ditch, proving that even modest towers resisted the forgetting. Edward Nugent held the land in 1641, yet the castle vanished from later surveys while the grassland kept its shape. The missing walls did not disappear; they surrendered to soil and time, waiting for someone to notice the slight rise where human ambition once stood.

Situated on a slight rise in undulating grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan maps as a sub-rectilinear shaped enclosure rounded at the NW corner, delimited by a broken line, and annotated ‘Site of Fennor Castle’. All that remains are the wall footings of a square shaped structure (approx. dims. 9m x 9m), probably the remains of a tower house standing inside a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 27m). Fallen chunks of masonry and collapsed stones partly obscure the remains of what appears to be the wall footings of a tower house. Fennor Castle is not depicted on either the 1655-9 Down Survey parish map of Rathconnell or the Barony map of Moyashel and Magheradernon (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1641 the lands of Fennor belonged to Edward Nugent who is listed in the Down Survey as an ‘Irish Papist’. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 April 2018

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