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The castle is believed to derive its name from Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374–98), who was Henry IV's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the last three years of his life, before dying in an ambush at Kells, County Meath (or maybe Kells, County Kilkenny or Kellistown, County Carlow). [4] [1]
In 1650, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, the castle was taken by forces under Sir John Reynolds and over 40 members of the McGeoghegan family were massacred. [3] According to the Civil Survey (1654–56) Garrat Lench of "Donowre" owned 220 acres (89 ha) in 1640, and on the property was ‘a Castle and Orchard, a weare and some ...
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Castletown-Kilpatrick, also known as Castletown KP [1] or Castletown (Irish: Baile an Chaisleáin), [2] is a townland and village in County Meath in Ireland. [3] It falls in the Meath East constituency. The Boyne Valley to Lakelands greenway passes through on the disused Navan and Kingscourt Railway line. [4] [5]
Robertstown Castle is located in the grounds of Robertstown House, halfway between Moynalty and Nobber. [2]The castle was part of the O'Reilly family's holdings, until the land was sold upon the death of Valentine O'Reilly.
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Ruins of Merrion Castle, painted by Gabriel Beranger, eighteenth century.Cruys built Merrion in the 1360s. In 1366 John Bathe of Rathfeigh, County Meath (a member of another prominent Anglo-Irish family, who were later based at Drumcondra, Dublin) granted to John Cruys the lands of Thorncastle, i.e. modern-day Mount Merrion and Booterstown, and the fisheries attached (which are mentioned in an ...
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