Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Irishtown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Irishtown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88512, -6.48693
- SMR number
- LH014-063----
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 structure is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map at Irishtowne (60) in Mapperstowne parish, for which see this web-page accessed on 5 May, 2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Atherdee&c=Louth The OS Letters refer to a castle in the townland of Irishtown (Tempest 1944, 315), and there is a field known locally as 'the Castle Field'. There is no visible surface indication of an antiquity, but the precise location is not known.
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
References
Tempest, H. G. 1944a The Castles and Motes of County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, 10, 314-5.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.