Castles and forts in County Meath
The Discover Alone map has 192 castles and forts in County Meath, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Trubley CastleCastle — tower houseTrubley Castle stood on the River Boyne as a square tower with circular corners, belonging to Bartholomew Cusack in…
Trim CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleTrim Castle rose on a River Boyne hillock as the headquarters for Hugh de Lacy’s vast Meath estate, transforming a…
The MoatCastle — motte and baileyThe Moat is a castle in County Meath where a flat-topped earthen mound still carries the ghost of a stone wall. Its…
Stokestown CastleCastle — unclassifiedStokestown Castle belonged to John Stoakes in 1640, when his stone house and mills occupied the whole parish of…
Slane CastleCastle — unclassifiedSlane Castle stands on a Boyne River bluff where the Fleming estate kept its heart for generations before James Wyatt…
Slane CastleCastleSlane Castle stands above the River Boyne in County Meath, where Conyngham families have lived since taking the estate…
Skreen CastleCastle — tower houseSkreen Castle is a three-storey tower house with a circular tower at the SW angle, built above the older motte that…
Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedVesingstown castle stood tall enough for towers and a gateway when Robert Rochford owned it in 1640, but decay had…
Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedThomas Cusack held a castle and 242 acres at Staffordstown in 1640, yet the site vanished before the Down Survey mapped…
Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedPolecastle marks the lost castle of John Fleming, who held the place and five hundred acres in 1640. The castle…
Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedColpe castle fell to Lord Moore of Mellifont in 1642, yet it remained habitable through the 1650s when John Draycott…
Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedMnemo knows the old castle because it is listed in the provided source. Grangegeeth appears in the Down Survey barony…
Scurlogstown CastleArchaeological placeScurlogstown Castle is an archaeological place in County Meath, Ireland. Its surviving identity is a location record…
RuinCastle — tower houseDonacarney Little stands as a ruined tower house on a knoll in County Meath, reduced to a north wall and fragmentary…
Round TowerCastle — tower houseKilskeer Round Tower is the last standing corner of a lost castle, buried under ivy beside its church in County Meath.…
Ross CastleCastle — tower houseRoss Castle stands in Killeagh parish as a four-storey tower house where only the west half remains original, while the…
Rathaldron Ho.Castle — tower houseRathaldron is an occupied tower house on the east bank of the River Balckwater, where a stream runs thirty metres west…
Randalstown HseCastle — unclassifiedRandalstown Castle anchored the Everard estate in County Meath from the fifteenth century, surviving Cromwellian…
Queen Marys CastleCastle — tower houseQueen Marys Castle at Ticroghan was a FitzGerald tower house later wrapped in a bastioned fort, possibly built by…
Proudfootstown CastleCastle — unclassifiedNo visible trace remains of the castle, but a circular base about three and a half metres across and one and a half…
Portlester Ho.Castle — unclassifiedPortlester Castle vanished into a level plain beside the Stonyford River, leaving only a lion crest in a rockery and…
Platin HouseCastle — unclassifiedPlatin House emerged around 1700 on the old Darcy castle site, scaling the brick and bay front into a grander statement…
Newstone Castle in RuinsCastle — tower houseNewstone Castle stood as a square tower house for the Lord of Slane, who controlled almost the entire parish by 1640.…
Naul Park HouseCastle — unclassifiedNaul Park House rose around the surviving east wall of a demolished castle, joining old stone to new rooms near the…
Mulhussy CastleCastle — tower houseMulhussy Castle stood as a tower house beside a private chapel, commanding four hundred acres for Edward Hussey in…
Moyrath CastleCastle — tower houseMoyrath Castle is a three-storey tower house on a level landscape in County Meath, built for the Nugent family in the…
Moymet CastleCastle — tower houseMoymet Castle stands as a four-storey tower house on level Meath land, belonging to Sir James Dillon, the first Earl of…
Moygaddy CastleCastle — tower houseMoygaddy Castle is a three-storey tower house in County Meath that the fifth Duke of Leinster conserved in 1892 because…
MoatCastle — motteWilliamstown moat stood on a west-facing slope above a small stream, its grassy top measuring seventeen by fifteen…
MoatCastle — motteSlanecastle Demesne holds a broad grassy motte on the summit of the Hill of Slane, where wide skies reach past Skreen…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyEleven feet of earth still rise above the church grounds at Ratoath, preserving the flat-topped mound where Hugh de…
Moat of KilbegCastle — motte and baileyKilbeg Upper is a motte and bailey castle on an esker ridge in County Meath. Its grass-covered mound rises twelve…
Moat of DiamorCastle — motte and baileyTen metres of earth rise above the flat Meath landscape, holding a concave top where broken stone still glints through…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyNobber Castle rose as a motte and bailey when Gilbert de Angelo made the village the caput of his manor before 1186…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyKillallon is a castle in which the earth still holds its shape: a flat-topped motte rising beside a rectangular bailey…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyMoat rises as a circular grass mound beside a diamond-shaped bailey in County Meath, marking a small castle where a…
MoatCastle — motteMoat, Loughcrew is a castle mound buried inside the gardens of Loughcrew House, not lost beneath soil or forgotten by…
MoatCastle — motteLisdornan holds a circular grass mound thirty metres across at its base and five metres high, marked by a narrow ditch…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyKilladden Castle stands on a hill summit in County Meath, its grass-covered motte rising three metres above a rounded…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyDrumcondra moat stands at the crest of a north-facing hill in County Meath, its grassy mound and rectangular bailey…
MoatCastle — motteMoat in Drumcondra is a circular, flat-topped mound with a slight fosse and possible bailey traces, sitting on a low…
MoatCastle — motteDrumbride Castle stood as a flat-topped motte beside its church, occupying an east-facing slope where a long bailey…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyCruicetown is a ruined motte and bailey castle at the summit of a hill in County Meath, Ireland. Its flat-topped grass…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyMoat, Coolronan is a motte and bailey castle in County Meath, Ireland. Its flat-topped mound rises 5.4m above a broken…
Moat CastleCastle — unclassifiedMoat Castle stands on a sharp ridge in Fore barony, its eight-metre north wall still catching light near the ancient…
Macetown CastleCastle — tower houseMacetown Castle was a tower house built for Christopher Cheevers and Anna Plunkett, whose names and motto In God, my…
Loughbrackan FortCastle — motte and baileyLoughbrackan Fort is a motte and bailey in County Meath, Ireland, where a flat-topped mound still rises beside Lough…
Liscartan CastleCastle — tower houseLiscartan Castle stands as a rectangular tower house with corner turrets on a slight slope above the River Blackwater…
Killeen CastleCastle — tower houseKilleen Castle stands on a slight south-facing slope in County Meath, its fifteenth-century tower house still buried…
Kilbride MoatCastle — motteKilbride Moat stood as a twenty-foot castle mound beside the medieval parish church, wearing a circular rath like a…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Tremblestown is a quarried castle motte in County Meath, Ireland, standing beside a church and tower house…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated, Saintjohns stands as a three-storey tower house within the Crutched friars complex dedicated to St John the…
IndicatedHouse — fortified houseIndicated, Robertstown (kells Lower By.) is a three-storey fortified house in County Meath where Scottish-style turrets…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated, Newtown (navan Upper By.) stands as a two-storey tower house beside the River Boyne and the cloister garth…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Derrypatrick is a bawn in County Meath, Ireland. It features a grass-covered enclosure with earthen banks…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedIndicated, Castlejordan stands on a broad rise above the Castlejordan River in County Meath, preserving a rectangular…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Castlejordan is a ruined bawn in County Meath, Ireland. Its broken ivy-covered wall still marks the edge of…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated - Bective is a tower house built at the southwest angle of a suppressed Cistercian abbey, standing on a low…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedBalsoon is a buried castle chamber in County Meath, still marked on maps and preserved under grass beside the River…
Headfort HouseCastleHeadfort House stands in County Meath as an eleven-bay limestone castle built around 1770 for Sir Thomas Taylour.…