Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Rathneestin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathneestin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathneestin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92903, -6.56088
- SMR number
- LH011-114001-
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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
Field known locally as the 'Castle Field'. Reputedly the site of Niselrath Castle, a probable tower house, described in 1599 as 'a square castle and a great bawne with a good dytche rounde abowte it' (Paterson 1944, 321-2). No visible surface trace.
The above 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: 17 July 2007
References
Paterson, T. G. F. 1944 A survey of the lands of Nizelrath, Co. Louth, 1667, with notes on the Chamberlains of Nizelrath. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 10, No. 4, 318-26.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.