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Castle - unclassified

Castletown (Lune By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Castletown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castletown (Lune By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.61299, -6.93555
SMR number
ME029-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A castle at Castletown (38) in Athboy parish and Lune barony is depicted as a tower on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Lord Gormanstown owned 200 acres there in 1640 including ‘a ruinated castle and some cottages’ (Simington 1940, 208). It is depicted as an oblong building (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 13m N-S) on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a single wall (L c. 20m E-W) on the 1908 ed. Only the foundations of the NE corner (L c. 3m E-W; c. 2m N-S) almost obscured by sod remains c. 6m N of a small WNW-ESE stream.

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 revision: 9 June 2016

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Purcell, J. 2018 Archaeological testing at Castletown, Athboy, Co. Meath. Licence: 18E0520. Unpublished report, Author

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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