County: Leitrim Site name: Parke's Castle, Kilmore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LE010-037001 Licence number: Ministerial Consent C000722
Author: Anne Carey
Site type: Fortified House (National Monument No. 390)
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 578205m, N 835150m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.264704, -8.334550
Monitoring of groundworks associated with the construction of two new stairways at Parke’s Castle were carried out over a four day period in May/June, 2017. Foundations for the new stairwells were excavated in two areas to the north-west and three areas to the south-east within the bawn wall. Two walls which had been recorded during the excavations at the castle in the 1970s were exposed in Trenches 1 and 2 at the north-western end of the bawn. These walls were part of the 19th-century stable complex, much of which was rebuilt in the 1980s, with the exception of the northernmost section.
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