Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Reaghstown, County Louth, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.