Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Littletown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littletown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51571, -7.85572
- SMR number
- WM015-016----
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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 the Ordnance Survey Letters Littleton Castle belonged to the Dillon's (RIA 14/G/13/3(19)). A rectangular structure depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, 80m S of the ruins of Littletown House may have been the site of Littletown Castle. O'Donovan recorded that there was 'no castle in Littletown. There are ruins just south of Littletown House, query Castle?' (OSL) The ruins mentioned in the OS letters are depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small rectangular-shaped ruin aligned NE-SW which may have been the remains of Littletown Castle. No surface remains visible of the structure in the area marked on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. A small hollow depression is now visible at this location.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.