Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castletown (dundalk Upper By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (dundalk Upper By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01582, -6.42848
- SMR number
- LH007-118003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Richard Bellew received a £10 grant to build a castle of the standard dimensions at Castletown in 1472, and a second grant in 1479, for a second castle at Castletown. Garstin's map of Castletown and Dundalk (1655) clearly shows a castle SE of Castletown cross roads (Gosling 1991, fig. 10a), although the exact position is not precisely known, and there is no further record of this castle. (Tempest 1943, 184-5; Bradley and King 1985, 58-9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 4 May 2016
References
Tempest, H.G. 1943b Bellew's Castle, Castletown-Bellew, or Castletown Castle, Dundalk. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 180-95.
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Louth. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Gosling, P. 1991 From Dún Delca to Dundalk: the topography and archaeoloigy of a medieval frontier town. A.D. c. 1187-1700. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 22, No. 3, 223-353.
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.