Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Tubbrid, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tubbrid
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.75639, -7.24793
- SMR number
- ME008-028----
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
A castle at Tubroad in Killeagh parish is not depicted on the on the Down Survey (1656-8) parish or barony maps (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/) but according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) John Plunkett of Loughcrew owned over 100 acres there together with a castle, a cornmill and 9 cabins in 1640 (Simington 1940, 272). The castle is depicted as an oblong building (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 5m N-S) on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as the site of a castle on the 1908 ed. A cairn (dims 7m E-W; 2m N-S; H c. 0.5m) with some facing-stones visible is all that remains.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 8 June 2016
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.