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Castle - unclassified

Edmondstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Edmondstown, 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
Edmondstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.90670, -6.62526
SMR number
LH013-006003-

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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 flat-topped hillock of rock outcrop surrounded by a wide drystone wall was said to be the site of a castle, of which there is no visible trace in 1966. Nearby farm buildings contain pieces of late medieval dressed stone (LH013-006004-), one bearing the date 1574 (LH013-006005-), and including the spandrel from a two-light ogee-headed window. Another stone has the coat of arms of the de Verduns and Plunkets (LH013-006006-). The stones are probably from a tower house, although no castle is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Ardee in Clinton Rath townland (87), for which see this web-page accessed on 5 May, 2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Atherdee&c=Louth.

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 revision: 5 May 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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