Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Castletowncooley, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletowncooley
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cooley Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cooley Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.00598, -6.22059
- SMR number
- LH008-056----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Site of castle built by James Dowdall c. 1543 and destroyed in the nineteenth century (Tempest 1952b, 77). No visible surface trace.
References
Tempest, H.G. 1952 Gossiping guide to Co. Louth (3 parts). Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
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