What is recorded here

Castle stood in Townparks as one of several defensive towers guarding medieval Dundalk before human impatience removed it. It may have been among the eighteen or twenty ruinous remains cleared at Lord Limerick's insistence around 1747, denying the town the odd shape and shadow that smaller castles give it. What is left is a vacant anchor: a place known only because it resisted forgetting long enough to be named.

According to Gosling (1982, 179, No. 249; 1991, Fig. 20, 1) this is the site of a castle, possibly a tower house, one of a number known to have stood in the medieval town of Dundalk. 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. (Bradley and King 1985, 127) 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 upload: 17 July 2007

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