The O'Madden family held the lands around Derryhivenny from c. AD 950 until the middle of the seventeenth century. On 5 February 1639, the head of the family, John O'Madden died, leaving his lands to his son, Daniel O'Madden. Daniel then set about building himself a tower house, around 1643. Its date is known from an
inscription on one of its
bartizan corbels: D:O'M ME:FIERI:FECIT 1643. ==Description==