Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Mullanstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullanstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Mullanstown Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mullanstown Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.87177, -6.55538
- SMR number
- LH014-042----
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 roofless gabled house is depicted at Mullinstown (73) in Ardee parish on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map, for which see this web-page access on 5 May 2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Atherdee&c=Louth
A castle is shown on Taylor and Skinner's map of 1777, but not on the 1778 edition (P 38). It is marked as the site of a castle on the 1835 and 1907 eds of the OS 6-inch map. The location is now disused quarry pit and no features are visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 5 May 2016
References
Taylor and Skinner 1777 Road map of Ireland. Reproduced by the County Louth Archaeological Society, 1982.
Taylor and Skinner 1778 (Reprint 1969) Maps of the Roads of Ireland. Shannon. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.