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Castle - tower house

Catherinestown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Catherinestown, 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
Catherinestown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.49222, -7.30743
SMR number
WM026-124----

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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

‘Catherinstowne’ Castle depicted as a rectangular type tower house standing on a low rise of ground on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fartullagh barony. On this map the castle is depicted standing in the N quadrant of the townland a short distance south of the southern boundary of the townland of Rahardelin [Ardillon] where the townland boundary forms a U-shaped bend close to a ringfort (WM026-033----) (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the 1657 Down Survey parish map of Lynn recorded that ‘upon Catherinstowne stands a Castle’. In 1641 this castle stood on lands belonging to Thomas Tirrell who is listed in the Down Survey as an ‘Irish Papist’. A group of buildings depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map to the N of a ringfort (WM026-033----) could be the site of the castle. Medieval castle site incorrectly listed in the Westmeath RMP as WM026-035----. The R. C. Church at Gainestown which contains Lynn Font (WM026-106---) was reputedly built with stones taken from Catherinestown Castle in 1853.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 23 January 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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