ROSCORE DEMESNE
OS 16:14:2 (365,112) Not indicated OD 100-200
22602,22295
Castle (site) Situated in low-lying grazingland overlooking bogland to N. The site of the castle is now occupied by Roscore House. An early 17th century map of Ballycowan barony shows two small buildings at 'Ross Coyr'. The castle was in the possession of Laurence Hammond in 1641 and was granted to John Jarvis in 1666 (Loeber Survey 1988) An earlier account of the site (ITA Survey 1942) described the S gable and of the W wall of a building with a projecting tower at its SW angle. The corner tower contained musket loops at ground floor level and the gable wall of the main body of the castle had small rectangular windows with wooden frames at ground floor level. This description suggests that the structure may have been a 17th century fortified house. [For a photograph, see Sr. Oliver Wrafter's Rahan looks back.]
16:34(01) 26-6-93

SHINRONE
OS 42:9:3(184,261) 'Castle (site of )' OD 200-300
20482,19236
Castle (site) Situated S of the main street through Shinrone and N of the Little Brosna River. A survey of 1622 indicates that the castle was property of Donough Mac Gilfoyle (Loeber Survey 1988). The area in which the castle formerly stood is locally know as 'Bawnmore'. No visible remains at ground level.
42:25 24-1-94

TOGHER (Lower Philipstown By. )
OS 10:8:6 (904,362) 'Lady Mary Warren's Castle (site of )'
OD 200-300 25115,23217
Castle (site, possible) Situated in flat land immediately S of the historically important 'Togher of Croghan' (316 , 324). The first and current OS eds. designate this site as 'Lady Warren's Castle' but the Down Survey of 1654 documents that Mary Warren occupied the nearby tower house of Toberdaly (863). There may never have been a castle at this location, the Ordnance Survey possibly having confused it with Toberdaly. No visible remains at ground level.
10:19 13-8-91

TOWNPARKS (Ballybritt By.)
OS 35:10:1 (290,334) 'Black Castle (site), Birr Castle'
OD 100-200 20550,20502
Castle (site) For the 'Black Castle' at Birr see Townparks (967)
35:12(01) 21-12-93

TULLA AND CRUMLIN
OS 39:7:5 (588,374) 'Tulla Castle (site of)'
OD 600-700 21878,20006
Castle (site) Situated in pasture land N of a tributary of the Carncor River. Tulla House lies immediately to WNW. On first and current OS eds. the field in which the castle is sited is indicated as a tree plantation. No visible remains at ground level. (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2,21)
39:27 7-9-93

TULLAMORE
OS 17:5:6 (174,328) Not indicated OD 200-300
23374,22529
Castle (site) Situated in the area N of Kilbride Street at the NW end of Tullamore town. The castle which formerly stood here was the property of Theobald O'Molloy (d. 1583) who left his estate to his grandson Edward who himself later mortgaged the castle to the Moores of Croghan . Following Edward's death in 1608 his sisters sold the castle to the Moores (Loeber Survey 1988). No visible remains at ground level. [This castle is shown on maps of the 1620s and may have been located on the bank of the Tullamore rising near the present sewerage works. A photograph taken by the late Garda Joseph Hanly, c. 1940, may, in fact be the remains of this structure.]
17:35 18-5-93