Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ardcath, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardcath
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60628, -6.39212
- SMR number
- ME033-050----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a field known as the Castle field (http://www.meathfieldnames.com/index.php/database-and-mapping) on the broad summit of Ardcath Hill. There is no record of a castle at Ardcath, but according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Roger ffinglass of Ardcath and Thomas Dillon of Balgeeth owned 180 acres there and the premises inclueded ‘a farme house and a church’ (Simington 1940, 27). Fragments of the building were uncovered in the 1920s during quarrying activity which is described in the Schools Manuscript Collection (1938). The Castle field is marked on a map of Ardcath, by Thomas Farrell (1899) (pers. comm. Mr Colin Byrne, Briarleas, County Meath), but at present its precise location is not known.
Compiled by Geradine Stout
Date of upload: 13/03/2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.