Boytonrath Castle (in ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Boytonrath Castle stood as a square limestone box forty-two feet across, its walls six feet thick before powder blew the structure into scattered masses. That violent end stripped the castle of height and identity, leaving only ivy-covered fragments buried beside a working farmyard. The stones still lie on their sides, waiting for someone to imagine the hands that built them and the sudden force that erased them.

In farmyard of working farm. Castle within SW area of enclosure (TS068-061001-), just outside modern farmyard. Not visible above ground level except for some ivy covered fragments of masonry. The OS Letters c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 82) describe the remains of the castle as 'fragments of the walls of a square castle which was forty two feet [12.8m] by twenty one feet [6.4m] on the inside. The walls are six feet thick [1.8m], built of limestone grouted. The largest fragment remaining is only twelve feet [3.65m] in height'. According to White (1892, 30) the castle was 'evidently blown up powder. The walls lie scattered about in large masses; and the courses of the mason work plainly indicated that some of them lie on the side'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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