Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Tullydonnell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullydonnell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.84196, -6.34434
- SMR number
- LH018-017001-
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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 castle at Tulloghdonnell (A) in Drimcar parish is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map, for which see this web-page accessed on 9 May 2106
There is a local tradition of castle known as Bolton's Castle on Tullydonnell hill (IFC vol. 671, 104), for which see this web-page accessed on 9 May 2016 http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008857/4961324 A castle in ruins shown on Taylor and Skinner's map of 1777, but not on the 1778 edition. There are no visible remains and the precise location is not known. The possible souterrain (LH018-017002-) is associated with it, but its precise location is not known.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 9 May 2016
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.