Mac Rannall’s Castle, County Leitrim

            It is located on a promontory, which was once an island known as Castle Island, near the South shore of Lough Scur in an area of scrub and rock outcrop. The house was built by John Reynolds, who was amongst one of the first of the Mac Raghnall to anglicise the name to Reynolds. He supported initiatives by the government to settle Leitrim, probably as a means of escaping the overlordship of O’Rourke. John Reynolds, or Seán na gCeann (of the heads), received a grant of over 2,000 acres as the manor of Lough Scur in 1621-2, and his son, Humphry, describes it in his will of 1660 as 20 cartrons or townlands, but the house is not mentioned. The house is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony and parish maps together with the watchtower on Prison Island c. 150m to the NW. The house was a roofless ruin by 1797 and has survived almost unchanged since, although with a dense cover of ivy.
The house is a rectangular, roofless, five-bay, three-storey house: int. dims 14m East-West; 6.25m North-South surviving almost complete, except for the East gable. The house has rectangular windows from which no dressed stone survives, although some square hood-moulding fragments are visible. There is a destroyed doorway in the centre of the South wall, and a semi-circular newel stair tower with gun-loops projects from the centre of the North wall, but the stair does not survive. The remains of fireplaces can be identified on both gables and in the North wall adjacent to the stairs tower. South of the house are low earthen banks suggesting outhouses, and a roadway, approaches the house from the South.
   

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