Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Carnpark, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnpark
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.42491, -7.79937
- SMR number
- WM030-030----
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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
Carn Castle situated on a rise, in gently undulating pasture. Levelled castle which stood in the centre of a bawn (WM030-030001-). Holy well (WM030-029----) named ‘Tobernakill’ lies c. 100m to NW, a settlement cluster (WM030-0123----) lies c. 160m to S. Annotated ‘a castle in repaire’ on the Down Survey map of Ballyloughloe parish and described in the terrier of this map as; ‘In Carne there is a castle in repaire’ (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the castle is depicted as a tower house with a two storey house attached to one side of the tower. In 1641 the castle stood on lands belonging to 'Awly McGawley' who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.). Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building enclosed by a bawn wall. Monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Levelled castle is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 November 2019
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.
Guest, E.M. 1936 Irish sheela na gigs in 1935. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 107-29.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.