What is recorded here

Three ruined castles stood at Street when the Down Survey measured Westmeath, yet not one stone remains visible today. The survey admitted few inhabitants occupied the decayed structures, capturing a place already half-swallowed by forgetting. One may have sat upon the old motte, but the land has taken back even that clue. Castle is no longer a building; it is a gap in the ground where memory stopped giving details.

One of three castles (WM002-027---; WM002-029--) in Street which was mentioned in the terrier of the 17th century Down Survey map for the parish of Street where it was recorded that 'it hath 3 Runious Castles (but few inhabytants therein) at Streete' (NLI, MS 723-4). The Down Survey map shows a two storey high gable ended house (WM002-041----) in the present village of street which was the property of the Irish papist, Theobald Delamarr. No castle ruins are depicted on this map. The precise location of two of these castles has not been identified and it is possible that the third castle ruins was located on the summit of the Anglo-Norman motte (WM002-027----). Today there are no surface remains of any medieval buildings or ruins of stone castles in the village of Street which are mentioned in the terrier of the Down Survey. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2015

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