What is recorded here

Castle stood in Townparks as Mortimer's Castle, a small defensive tower until Lord Limerick ordered the removal of eighteen or twenty such ruinous remains near Dundalk By. around 1747. Its stones may have vanished then, depriving the area of one more sharp-edged landmark and leaving behind only the memory of a building that once watched the river bank.

Referred to as 'Mortimer's Castle'. It may have been one of the '18 or 20 ruinous remains of small castles or defensive towers' said to have been removed at Lord Limerick's insistence c. 1747. (O'Sullivan 1963; Gosling 1982, 164, No. 57; 1991, fig. 20, No. 13) The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 17 July 2007

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