Mylerstown Castle in Ruins — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Mylerstown Castle was a Bermingham tower house, its shadow stretching across the gentle pasture slope before men forgot its name. The SW wall still stands two and a half metres high, holding a wide doorway and a window embrasure while the rest has collapsed into grassy mounds. It faced the medieval church and graveyard two hundred metres away, suggesting the castle watched over the dead as much as it guarded the living. The Berminghams built strength into that slope, then vanished, leaving only a scarp, two wall fragments and a pile of stones to argue with.

Located at the NW-foot of a long, gentle, pasture slope, with a medieval church (KD003-011001-) and graveyard (KD003-011002-) c. 200m to the NW. According to Fitzgerald (1903-05, 319-20) it was 'a former Bermingham stronghold'. A low, rectangular, grass-covered platform (dims. L c. 30m NW-SE: Wth c. 18m; H 0.4-0.6m) defined by a scarp, carries two parallel, lower portions of castle walling and two sections of associated but collapsed mortared masonry. A SW wall (L 12m; Wth 1.5-1.7m; H2.6m) has most facing stones robbed-out, but two opes survive; a doorway (Wth 1.6m) and window embrasure (Wth 1.1-1.6m). Parallel to it (7m to NE) is a foundation-course of outer wall facing stones (L 3m), immediately to the S of which is a large pile of collapsed mortared masonry (dims. L 10m; Wth 5m), with a second, smaller area of displaced masonry (dims. L 3.5m ;Wth 2m) c. 10m to the NE. The monument was probably a tower house. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Built by the Bermingham family, likely in the 13th or 14th century, Mylerstown Castle is remembered as a medieval stronghold associated with a prominent Anglo-Norman knightly family in Leinster. Its location near a medieval church and graveyard suggests it was part of a significant local ecclesiastical and secular complex.

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