Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rathtrim, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathtrim
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53096, -7.51822
- SMR number
- WM018-094----
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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
Rathconrath Castle was possibly located in the field to the E of the motte (WM018-093----) as depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Rathconrath parish where it is shown standing on lands belonging to Thomas Fitzgerald who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (NLI, MS 723-4). On the Down Survey map the castle is depicted as a tower house type structure standing in a triangular-shaped field beside a medieval routeway. A rectangular-shaped earthwork depicted on an estate map of Rathconrath dating from 1776 which roughly corresponds with the location of the medieval stone castle of Rathconrath (NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (026) ). The cropmark of this rectangular-shaped earthwork is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 October 2016
References
NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (26) - National Library of Ireland, A map of lands at Ballinbeg Rathconrath and Simonstown... in the barony of Rathconrath and County of Westmeath. Names of tenants and acreage of holdings shown. Longfield Map Collection. Dublin.
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
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.