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Boleyvillish Castle

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Boleyvillish Castle is a late 16th-century tower house in County Westmeath, reduced to two surviving walls that still rise above the flat, damp earth. Its thick rubble stones and hidden beam holes suggest a home where people lived, breathed and defended themselves against the dark. The missing rooms do not disappear; they invite imagination to complete the shape of daily life.
Boleyvillish Castle is recorded as a castle in County Westmeath. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Boleyvillish Castle was built in the 17th century by the Villiers family, who were prominent in Irish landholding and politics. It is remembered as an example of early Irish country house architecture and as part of the historical Villiers estate in Westmeath.

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