Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Carlanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carlanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.74144, -7.33948
- SMR number
- WM001-031002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Present remains consist of a square shaped area or bawn (WM001-031----) enclosed by stone wall originally defended by four circular-shaped corner towers of which only three now survive upstanding at SW, NW and NE angles. The interior of the bawn was entered through a gateway now destroyed on the E side. A square-headed doorway in S wall of stables built on the line of S wall of the bawn has two scroll brackets with date stone 1813, the brackets possibly dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and may have originally come from Carlanstown Castle.
Post-1700 farm buildings and farmyard occupies the interior of the bawn. Carlanstown House a multi-period structure stands along the line of the destroyed S wall of the bawn. No visible remains of 17th-century Carlanstown Castle or fortified house which may have stood in the S half of the bawn (WM001-031----) where the post-1700 farm buildings now stand.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of revised upload: 17 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.