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The precise location of a second castle in the village of Delvin has not been identified. Described in the terrier of the 1659 Down Survey map of Castletown parish as a ‘small castle in repaire with Diverse small cabbins, this was formerly a market town [Delvin] & the Earle of Westmeaths cheife seate’ (NLI, MS 723-4).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 August 2018
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The map shows the centre of the officially named townland area, not the monument. The government record does not identify the exact monument point.