Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Castlering, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlering
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97518, -6.52922
- SMR number
- LH011-008----
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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
Church existed in 1622 in ruinous condition, but no trace now remains. Surrounding field adjacent to Motte (LH006-076001-) known locally as 'graveyard field'. Its exact position is not known but it is thought to have been in the field SW of Castlering House. (CLAJ 1942, 106; Tempest 1952b, 121)
References
Tempest, H.G. 1952 Gossiping guide to Co. Louth (3 parts). Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.