School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 0365
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- (continued from previous page)It is about 100 yards from the road and stands about 30 feet in height.
Inside the castle there is a winding stone stairs leading to the top of the castle.
There is only half of it remaining now.
The top of it is called the attic. It is knocked down. The top of it is round. The bottom of it is bigger and wider than the top.
There are five little narrow-holes for windows. There is a door facing the south.
- Killua castle is situated near Clonmellon, part of this castle was there in the time of Cromwell. The Chapmans were the first family who came to it, they were some of Cromwells soldiers and it is said that name was got in this way. When Cromwell was in Killua he called one of his soldiers a chap, then he called him a man, and it is said that this soldier afterwards got the castle. The Chapman's built a lot of towers to it, it is thirty years since the last one died.
- Collector
- Róisín Ní Charra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
