Castles in County Meath

An Mhí · Leinster · 25 places

County Meath (An Mhí) in Leinster features 25 mapped castles, led by Skreen Castle, Durhamstown Castle, and Slane Castle. Across these 25 listings, 11 feature verified photography and 20 include mapped nearby public parking. Medieval fortresses, Norman keeps, and tower houses.

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Skreen Castle

Skryne Castle (Irish: Caislean na Scríne or Caisleán Scrín Cholm Cille) was a castle at Skryne, County Meath, Ireland; only ruins remain. The motte and bailey castle was built by Adam de Feypo in the 12th century.

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Durhamstown Castle

Durhamstown Castle is a 600-year-old towerhouse in the townland of Durhamstown of the civil parish of Ardbraccan which is in the barony (Ireland) of Lower Navan, in County Meath, Ireland. It has been inhabited continuously since 1420. It is named after a Mr. Dorream (or Mr. Dorram), whose family lived there in 1511, and has been converted into a guest house and restaurant. Although the precise origins of the building are unknown, the existing castle is believed to date from the early 15th century. The building is of four storeys and the ground floor has four vaulted chambers with inserted windows. A square tower with a pointed door which opens to a spiral staircase can be found at its east wall. There are three tall chimneys clustering at the north end of the nave. There is believed to have originally been another storey which was knocked down as a result of a fire. A 19th-century single-storey wing has been added to the north of the old house. In the 16th century the building was owned by The 1st Earl of Essex, Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland. In the 17th century Sir Roger Jones-Lord Ranallagh lived there, whose son Arthur, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, was involved in a scandal whereby the entire Irish Exchequer was diverted to pay for the mistresses of Charles II. During the 18th century its occupants were Thompsons and during the 19th the Roberts family. It is currently owned by Dave and Sue Prickett, who bought it in 1996 and run it as a guest house and restaurant.

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Slane Castle

Slane Castle (Irish: Cáisleán Bhaile Shláine) is located in the village of Slane, within the Boyne Valley of County Meath, Ireland. The castle has been the family seat of the Conyngham family since it was built in the late 18th century, on land first purchased in 1703 by Brig.-Gen. Henry Conyngham. It holds the Slane events within the surrounding gardens with the Irish Independent claiming in 2004 that "Slane today is the kind of internationally recognised venue that can claim even Madonna's attention". The grounds form a natural amphitheatre.

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Dunsany Castle

Dunsany Castle (Irish: Caisleán Dhún Samhnaí) is a modernised Anglo-Norman castle in County Meath, Ireland, notable as one of Ireland's oldest homes in continuous occupation, possibly the longest occupied by a single lineage, having been held by the Cusack family and their descendants by marriage, the Plunketts, from the 12th century to the present day. Figures associated with the castle include one of the originators of the fantasy genre, Lord Dunsany and the founder of the agricultural cooperative movement in Ireland, Horace Plunkett. Construction of the castle was started c. 1180 by Hugh de Lacy, who also commissioned the original Killeen Castle, nearby, and the famous Trim Castle. The castle is surrounded by its demesne, the inner part of the formerly extensive Dunsany Estate. The demesne holds a historic church dedicated to Saint Nicholas, a walled garden, a stone farm complex, and an ice house, among other features, and is home to a wide range of trees and fauna. It is today the subject of a large-scale rewilding project.

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Athlumney Castle

Athlumney Castle (Irish: Caisleán Áth Luimnigh) is a tower house and fortified house and a National Monument in Navan, Ireland. The site remains accessible to the public; to enter, visitors need to place a deposit at the nearby B&B and receive a key.

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Donore Castle

Donore Castle is a tower house (caiseal) and National Monument in County Meath, Ireland.

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Dunmoe Castle

Dunmoe Castle (Irish: Caisleán Dhún Mó) is a castle and National Monument located near Navan, Ireland.

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Athcarne Castle

Athcarne Castle is a ruined Elizabethan castle outside the town of Duleek in County Meath, Ireland.

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Dardistown Castle

Dardistown Castle is a castle and country house situated in parkland near Julianstown in County Meath, Ireland a few miles south of Drogheda. The medieval castle itself is a large four-storey medieval tower house to which a Victorian residential frontage has been added. The tower is square with sides about 44 feet long and 50 feet high, with a turret at each corner. The ground floor contains the main room with vaulted smaller rooms in three of the four turrets. The fourth turret contains an anti-clockwise spiral staircase. All the upper floors have wooden ceilings and fireplaces in each main room. The corner turrets are higher than the rest of the tower and have a small flight of stairs leading to the turret roof. The staircase turret leads to a parapet walk. The residential extensions were added around 1750 with the addition of a front hall, drawing room and dining room, to which upper floors were later added. Other extensions were added around 1800 and the frontage was built in 1860.