Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Carranstown Great, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carranstown Great
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carrantstown Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carranstown Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.54743, -6.98078
- SMR number
- ME035-008----
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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
Three structures at Carranstowne (15) in Killaconican parish are depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Lune (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Michell Rochford owned 160 acres there in 1640 including ‘an Ould Ruinated Castle’ (Simington 1940, 202). Within the same parish he also owned 60 acres at Robinstown, 113 acres at Clonegrany and 70 acres at Killballiver, and he had a share in 710 acres at Culronan with three others (ibid. 199-203). Carranstown Castle is depicted as the SW corner of a building on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated in a level landscape. It is now a subcircular, grass-covered cairn (dims 35m E-W; 30m N-S; H 1.5m). There are old drainage ditches in the surrounding field.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.