KILMAINE
OS 35:12:3 (916,231) 'Carroll's Castle (site of )' OD 200-300 21245, 20503
Castle (site) Situated in in the low-lying floodplains of the Camcor River which runs to the N of the castle, and the Fuarawn River which flows in a N-S direction to W of the site. Mentioned in 1667 in the Quit Rent Survey and Distribution Book for the Parish of Shyrikyan (SeirKieran) as the property of Owen Carroll, son of Daniel Carroll of Ballymooney (877). The remains of the castle comprise no more than a few grass-covered mounds of loosely piled rubble enclosed at S and E by a broad fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5n). An entry in the Birr journal for 1690 indicates that there were gardens at Kilmaine. In February of that year an observer had seen 'a load of cypress trees, tulips, and other flower roots, and herbs' being taken from Sir Laurence Parsons' garden at Birr and carried to Kilmaine for resetting in the gardens of Lieutenant Colonel Owen Carroll (pers. comm. A. Leonard). (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 25)
35:19 17-1-94

KILNAGARNAGH
OS 7:13:2 (145,136) Not Indicated OD 200-300 21389, 22952
Castle (site) Situated in pasture-land within Kilnagarnagh Demesne. The Down Survey barony map of Garrycastle shows a tower house in this townland. It was in the ownership of John Mc Fir Mac Coghlan in 1641 (Loeber Survey 1988). The site of the castle is now occupied by Kilnagarnagh House. No visible remains at ground level.
7:61 18-10-93

KINLCORA
OS 14:12:6 (911,222) Not Indicated OD 100-200 21227, 22401
Castle (site) Situated on a natural rise in the floodplain of the River Brosna which it overlooks to W. According to Mathew de Renzy, writing in 1616 and again in 1620, the castle of Kincora was built by Sir Richard Tuite and the bawn about it was by James Og Mac Coghlan in whose possession it was at that time. In addition to the castle he described the abandoned 'great town' of Kincora which than been 'builded by the English where they had a fair and market and the streets of the towne are yet to be seene and went by the English names' (Mac Cuarta 1987, 122, 177). De Renzy also made a proposal for the construction of a 'stony bridge' over the Brosna at Kincora (ibid., 175). The castle was in the ownership of John Mac Coghlan in 1641 (Loeber Survey 1988). Its site may be identified as grass-covered wall-footings of a building situated to W of the 19th-century house in Kincora. The presence of a late medieval punch-dressed window jamb incorporated into the side of the demesne wall suggests that the castle masonry is likely to have been used to build the later house, its outbuilding and demesne wall.
14:46 26-11-93

KYLEBEG OR BANAGHER
OS 21:16:4 (754,26) Not Indicated OD 100-200 20092, 21545
Castle (site) Situated within the town of Banagher overlooking the River Shannon to N. In a concerted effort to plant Delvin Mac Coghlan plans were made in 1621 to erect a fort or plantation castle in Banagher. In 1624 the fortification was completed under the direction of Sir Arthur Blundell and named Fort Falkland after Sir Henry Carey, Viscount Falkland, who was appointed Lord Deputy in 1622. A drawing of this stronghold made by Nicholas Pynnar in 1624 shows a long rectangular building with gabled roof, placed within a large rectangular enclosure with battered and crenellated walls and surrounded by a moat. A circular tower containing several cruciform gun loops positioned at the corner facing into the river and a twin bastioned gatehouse with drawbridge was placed on the opposite side (Bradley 1986, 14).
21:3 31-1-94

LEHINCH
OS 8:7:2 (580,437) Not Indicated OD 200-300 228822, 23280
Castle (site) Situated in pasture-land N of the River Brosna. The property of Hubert Fox in the late 16th and early 17th century (Loeber Survey 1988). The site of the castle is now occupied by Lehinch House. No visible remains at ground level.
8:60 4-6-93

LISCLOONEY
OS 22:1:1 (79,538) 'Lisclooney Castle (in ruins)' OD 200-300 20342, 22088
Castles (sites) Situated in flat well-drained land commanding good views of the surrounding countryside. There appears to have been two castles at this site; the annals (AFM., vol.5 1543) record the completion of the castle 'Lis-cluaine' by Melaghlin O'Dalaghan on the festival of St. Matthew the evangelist in 1556, while Mathew de Renzy writing in 1620 explained that the 'fine and stately seat of the castle of Liscluna' then in the hands of Hugh O'Dalaghan, had replaced an earlier castle called 'Cul Fiamhaigh', the ruins of which are still to be seen in 1620 within the parkland of its successor. De Renzy described the then castle of Lisclooney as 'one of the principalst seats' in Delvin Mac Coghlan, Englischlike seated with a fine parke neare it and goodly meddows belonging to it upon the Shenen side' (Mac Cuarta 1987, 170-73). In 1641 Lisclooney was still in the hands of Hugh O'Dalaghan but it was assigned to the Duke of York in 1666 (Loeber Survey 1988). The present structure at Lisclooney is an L-plan house (963) which may be synonymous with O'Dalaghan's castle, but it could have been erected later on its site. (Cooke 1875, 335; O'Flangan 1933, vol. 1, 59; ITA Survey 1942)
22:1 25-11-93

MILLTOWN
OS 30:5:4 (44,314) 'Milltown Ho.' OD 100-200 20319, 21209
Castle (site) Situated in pasture-land E of Rapemills River. Writing to Lord Deputy St Lord Deputy St John in 1620, Mathew de Renzy described the castle of Baile na Muilean as ' builded uppon a rock and a pleasant streame running close by the wall of it, with good land about it' located near the pass from Delvin Mac Coghlan into Ely O'Carroll, and then in the hands of Melaghlin Lia Mac Coghlan (Mac Cuarta 1987, 169). In 1641 the castle and the lands at Milltown were in the ownership of Arthur Coghlan. In 1666 the property was granted to Joshua Hensy (Loeber Survey 1988). Milltown House was built on its site.
30:22 8-12-93