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Castle - unclassified

Tullydonnell, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Tullydonnell, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tullydonnell
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.84196, -6.34434
SMR number
LH018-017001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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