Cloontykilla Castle, County Roscommon

            Rockingham Estate was granted to Sir John King in 1618. Sir John King was cromwellian, also receiver to the revenue, The estate at its time which contained 30,000 acres, stunning landscapes with plantations of oak trees and various species, it still retains many of these beautiful landscape features. One of his descendants castles was Cloontykilla. Cloontykilla Castle was designed by John Nash of Buckingham Palace domain in the Gothic Revival mode in 1839. This was an era of Famine and insurrection when many of Ireland’s most beautiful buildings were built. John Nash architecturally borrowed from across the centuries creating a detached square-plan castellated house, with castellated towers to angles and inner courtyard. Coursed rubble walls with tooled limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins and castellations. Battered walls to towers and entrance bay. Two two-stage towers to front angles and two four-stage towers to rear angles. Tudor-arch entrance with wrought-iron grid-like gates on wheels that open back into cavity in wall. Chamfered tooled limestone surround with date '1839' to keystone gives access to inner courtyard. Pointed-arch blind windows to side elevations. Five-bay two-storey house within outer walls with castellated parapet and random coursed limestone walls with dressings. Square-headed window openings with block-and-start surrounds and limestone sills. Bull's eye window above doorway with block-and-start surround. Pointed-arch window openings to rear elevation with one surviving cast-iron lattice window. Stone spiral stairs to northwest tower.
In 1914, it was the secret Western Command headquarters of the Irish Republic Brotherhood which was the local force of rebellion. The grounds were littered with dug outs, a couple of which exist to this day. The Rockingham estate was sold to the Irish government in 1957 after the fire burned Rockingham manor house to the ground. Cloontykilla Castle fell in to a ruin state and by the time it was acquired in 1997 by Sean Simon it was in peril of collapse. With trees going through it, It was a beginning of a long journey to see it restored. Over the following years, with grants from the local council it was made safe again. Eventually receiving planning permission in 2007 to restore it and bring it back to life. The trials and tribulations of this are well documented and the castle is planned to be finished for late summer 2022.

Taken on: March 26, 2022

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