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1. Old Ruins in this Locality (continued)

   

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   he got land in this locality where he built a castle.
   It was built of stones and tradition tells us that the stones that are in it are those of an old monastery, which in olden times was built near the place where "Castlebaldwin Creamery" is now situated, and it must be true that there was an old ruin there sometime, because there is a kind of a graveyard still to be seen near the creamery, and the man who owns the land, says, that no one was buried there only non-baptised children.
   Tradition also tells us that there was a small lake extending from where the creamery is now, to almost as far as the castle, and we are told that the stones were carried across the lake, by means of small boats, to build the castle. It was built and from looking at its ruins it was about thirty four feet long, twenty one feet wide, twenty four feet high in the side-wall and about thirty six feet high in the gable-wall.
   There are the tracks of about sixteen windows, which were about three feet high and two feet wide. Under the ground there were three cellars in which things they wanted to conceal were kept. One time a man named Sir John O' Regan captured it and held it for some time.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Vera Morrison

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Castlebaldwin, Co. Sligo