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Castle - unclassified

Reaghstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Reaghstown, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Reaghstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.91368, -6.61470
SMR number
LH013-004001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A house with a chimney is illustrated on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Ardee at Reaghstown (86) in Phillipstown parish, for which see this web-page accessed on 5 May, 2016http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Atherdee&c=Louth Furthermore there is a local tradition from the 1930s of a castle in Jack Murphy's field (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 667, 301), for which see this web-page accessed on 5 May, 2016 http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008844/4960535. The field was known locally in 1966, but the precise location of any remains is not.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 5 May 2016

References

IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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