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Castle - unclassified

Milltown (Rathconrath By., Rathconrath ED), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Milltown, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Milltown (Rathconrath By., Rathconrath ED)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Milltown Castle in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Milltown Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.54054, -7.54123
SMR number
WM017-058----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Milltown Castle was depicted as a tower house type structure on the 1657 Down Survey map of Rathconrath parish (NLI MS 723-4). The terrier of parish map stated there was a castle in the townland of Milltown which in 1641 was in the possession of Oliver Dalton who is listed as an Irish papist' (ibid.).
Castle site situated directly N of a farmhouse and adjoining the NE end of a farmyard. A dovecote (WM017-058001-) lies c. 120m to SE. Location of castle is visible as a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 34m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) enclosed by a wall to NW, NE and SE and open to SW on Digital Globe aerial photography. Annotated on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘Milltown Castle in ruins’. Annotated on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as ‘Milltown Castle (Site of)’.
Site of Milltown Castle described in 1978 as directly N of a cottage there are some low but fairly substantial grass-covered wall foundations which may be medieval in date and belong to the castle.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 12 December 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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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