Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlebellingham
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.89375, -6.39282
- SMR number
- LH015-009----
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
There is the site of an earlier castle within the grounds of Castle Bellingham mansion and some foundations survived according to Tempest (1952b, vol. 3, 131-2). The site is marked on the 1907 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. (Anon. 1908, 307), but there are no visible remains of a structure.
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 upload: 17 July 2007
References
Anon. 1908 Proceedings - summer meeting and excursions. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 38, 291-322.
Tempest, H.G. 1952 Gossiping guide to Co. Louth (3 parts). Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.