Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Gravelstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gravelstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gravelstown Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gravelstown Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.76495, -6.81125
- SMR number
- ME011-028----
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 Crauelstowne (90) in Emlogh parish and Kells barony is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony and parish maps (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the baron of Howth owned 350 acres there in 1640 and ‘a waste castle’ was on the property (Simington 1940, 298). The castle is depicted as one structure in a farm complex on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a shell (dims c. 10m NE-SW; c. 5m NE-SW) with a projection at the E end of the NW wall on the 1908 ed. Only a featureless portion of the NE wall of this building 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
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.