Castle — unclassified in Rathtrim — Photo: Credit not shown in the picture search · Open the original picture · Rights wording not checked; contact us if this picture should be removed · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.

Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directions Share what you found

What is recorded here

Rathconrath Castle was possibly located in the field to the E of the motte (WM018-093----) as depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Rathconrath parish where it is shown standing on lands belonging to Thomas Fitzgerald who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (NLI, MS 723-4). On the Down Survey map the castle is depicted as a tower house type structure standing in a triangular-shaped field beside a medieval routeway. A rectangular-shaped earthwork depicted on an estate map of Rathconrath dating from 1776 which roughly corresponds with the location of the medieval stone castle of Rathconrath (NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (026) ). The cropmark of this rectangular-shaped earthwork is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 October 2016

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

Castle — unclassified in Rathtrim

What is recorded here