Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The ruins of a tower and an adjacent gabled structure is depicted at Cookstown (71) on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map in Charlestown parish, for which see this web-page accessed on 5 May 2016
http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Atherdee&c=Louth It is depicted on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular roofless structure (dims c. 8nm E-W; c. 5m N-s) and on the 1907 ed. as if the N wall might partially survive. It is described locally as having a slit window and cellars, by which is probably meant a vault, but it was removed in the early twentieth century. No feature is visible at ground level. Archaeological testing (00E0913) in the vicinity failed to produce any related material (Clutterbuck 2002). The possible souterrain (LH014-016002-) is c. 20m to the S. (Stubbs 1909, 132)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 9 May 2016

References

Clutterbuck, R. 2002 Cookstown. Vicinity of Castle. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 214. Bray. Wordwell

Stubbs F.W. 1909 Place Names in the County of Louth. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, Vol. 2, 2 128-38.