Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Castlefarm, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlefarm
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41690, -6.47666
- SMR number
- ME050-021009-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape, with the WNW-ESE Castle River c. 100m to the N. Archaeological testing (04E1040) by C. Cotter during 2005 uncovered the foundations of this structure just outside the outer edge of the fosse of the medieval ring-work castle (ME050-021007-) at E (excavations.ie 2005:1175). Parts of the W and S walls (Wth 1m) with the NW and SW angles of a rectangular building (ext. dims 8.65m plus E-W; c. 8m N-S) were recorded. The battered base of the W wall (H 0.6m) extended into the top of the enclosure fosse but it was not properly aligned with the ditch edge, indicating that the latter was fully backfilled when the wall was built. A blue/white jug, imported from the Low Countries and dating from the sixteenth century at the earliest is associated with this building as were two mid-sixteenth century coins. (Cotter 2008, 291)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 October 2021
References
Cotter, C. 2008 1175. Dunboyne Castle, Castlefarm, Dunboyne. Bronze Age ringditch; possible early medieval activity and medieval enclosure. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 289-91, Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.