Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dardistown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dardistown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56526, -7.14296
- SMR number
- WM013-100----
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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
According to Adams (1959, 57) the building depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a structure with two smaller structures to the S, surrounded by small fields was the site of Dardistown Castle (WM013-099----). It has also been suggested that the castle was located in close proximity to Dardistown House located 580m to N. No surface remains visible of any building at this location. Dardistown Castle is depicted on the 1655 Down Survey map of Killagh parish where it is shown standing on the lands of Sir Thomas Nugent who is listed as an 'Irish Papist' (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded that in Dardistown there 'is a castle in repaire with diverse cabbins’ (ibid.).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2018
References
Adams, F.R.G. 1959 Castletown-Delvin roundabout. Ríocht na Mídhe II (1), 51-61.
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.