Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Donacarney Little, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donacarney Little
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Smithy
- Coordinates
- 53.71049, -6.27858
- SMR number
- ME021-039----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a knoll which is on a general E-facing slope, and it is also at the edge of the road on the N side of a road junction. The smithy at Donacarney abutted the W wall of the castle (ME021-009----) (Dalton 1844, vol. 2, 451), and this building could be a medieval structure as recorded by Kieran Campbell. It incorporated a rectangular light in the E gable, the surrounds of which were dressed with hollow chamfers and it had horizontal glazing bar-holes. The E gable is now reduced in height, but the W wall has a blocked pointed doorway which has the base of its chamfered jambs and part of the pointed arch still present. The quoinstones appear to be hammer-dressed and a spandrel from an ogee-headed light is built into the wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 September 2021
References
D'Alton, J. 1844 The history of Drogheda and its environs, (2 vols). Dublin. Author.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.