Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ardagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ardagh Castle (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ardagh Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.89780, -6.73736
- SMR number
- ME003-002----
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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
Depicted as a large building (dims c. 10m x c. 10m) on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as Ardagh Castle in ruins. It is situated at the crest of an E-facing slope in an area with grass-covered quarries. The entire parish of Ardagh was owned by the Lord of Slane in 1640, including 114 acres in the Manor of Ardagh, but the name of any tenant is not recorded (Simington 1940, 369-71). One wall (L 8m; Wth 1.2m; H 1m) survives oriented NE-SW with traces of it extending further to the NE (L c. 16m).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 3 June 2016
References
Morant, G. 1867 Proceedings: Ballyhoe Lough. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 9, 8-10.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Wood-Martin, W.G. 1886 (Reprint 1983) The lake dwellings of Ireland: or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. Dublin. Hodges, Figgis and Co.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.