Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Carstown (ferrard By; Termonfecin Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carstown (ferrard By; Termonfecin Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carstown
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carstown
- Coordinates
- 53.75992, -6.31785
- SMR number
- LH021-046001-
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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
The fabric of Carstown Castle was reputedly incorporated in outbuildings of Carstown House (Leslie 1908, 57; Tempest 1943, 221), but this cannot be confirmed. Two armorial plaques (LH021-046003- and LH021-046004-) dated 1612 remain in their original positions in the core of seventeenth-century house (See also LH021-046002-).
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
Leslie, J.B. 1908 History of Kilsaran, County Louth. Dundalk.
Tempest, H.G. 1943a Two fireplace inscriptions 1584 and 1612. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 216-21.
Nearby in the register
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.