Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castletowndelvin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletowndelvin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WM014-005----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a second castle in the village of Delvin has not been identified. Described in the terrier of the 1659 Down Survey map of Castletown parish as a ‘small castle in repaire with Diverse small cabbins, this was formerly a market town [Delvin] & the Earle of Westmeaths cheife seate’ (NLI, MS 723-4).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 August 2018
References
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.