School: Banada
- Location:
- Banada, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Laoise Ní Dhochartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 085
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- History of Castlemore Castle BallaghaderreenThe ruins of Castlemore, the Great Castle of the Mac Costellos, lie about a mile west of Ballaghaderreen. Owing to the senseless vandalism of the peasantry in the early years of the last century, who used the Castle as a quarry for building material not much of the once great fortress remains, - a few green mounds and a few remnants of masonry, which may be the base of towers or of the ancient curtain walls between the towers.
As its name indicates, it was a place of great strength, defended by many towers and bastions, with a great central heep and courtyard and lawns. The ruins indicate that it covered much ground. Built in the 13th century by the Norman De Nangles, who came into Connaught with the De Burghs, and in time took the name Mac Costello, becoming more Irish than the Irish themselves, it was captured from the Mac Costellos in the Elizabethan wars by Sir Richard(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Towey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lung, Co. Roscommon
