Castle in Newtown, County Meath (ME036-049013-)

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Situated on a level landscape c. 50m from a WSW-ENE section of the River Boyne, and on the W side of the cloister garth of Newtown Abbey (ME036-049003-). It is at least a two-storey structure (ext. dims 13.85m E-W; 9.15m N-S) that has an E-W barrel-vault, now destroyed, over the ground floor. There is a newel stairs in a projecting tower at the NE angle, and there is a fireplace in the S wall at the first floor. Archaeological supervision (E005341) of the laying of a path from the Abbey at Newtown through the Porch field (ME036-048056-) to Trim by N. Roycroft during 2021 (excavations.ie 2021:547) identified cobbled and paved surfaces in the area N of the tower house. These are from a post-medieval farmstead that seems to have been centred on this area that utilised and probably created the rectangular fields further W that are visible as low earthen banks.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME036-049013

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