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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"CASTLELOST, a parish in the barony of Tartullagh, in the county of Westmeath, province of Leinster, Ireland, 9 miles to the S. of Mullingar. It was the site of a very an dent monastery, said to have been founded by St. Carthag in the 7th century, and to have risen to great fame and importance. Here was also a castle belonging to the Tyrrells, of which remains still exist. The surface is partly under cultivation and partly boggy, with limestone subsoil. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Meath, value £201, in the patronage of Lord Kilmaine. Ruins of the old parish church stand near the site of the castle; there are several monuments to the Tyrrells, among which is an altar-tomb with the figure of a knight recumbent."
"ROCHFORT-BRIDGE, a post town in the parish of Castlelost, barony of Fartullagh, county Westmeath, province of Leinster, Ireland, 7 miles S.W. of Kinnegad, on the Dublin and Athlone road. It contains the parish church, a police station, and a National school."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868. Copyright Colin Hinson ©2018]