Found?

cfuserkildare

Hey folks,

A little help needed here because Archaeology.ie seems to hate me.

Looking to findout what the following is, and what is known about it.

53.435777,-7.045305

Google Maps co-ordinates.

Simon.d

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Hey folks,

A little help needed here because Archaeology.ie seems to hate me.

Looking to findout what the following is, and what is known about it.

53.435777,-7.045305

Google Maps co-ordinates.

Remember seeing that before, cool looking fort alright!

Heres the Listing:

Description: The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007

Rectangular area defined by banks with wide outer fosse (dims. 140m NW-SE, 95m NE-SW) and projecting bastions surviving at N and E corners. Interior divided into rectangular platforms (dims. c. 15m by 25m) by shallow depressions.

Date of last visit: 08 July 1970

Worthy of a bit more than that methinks!

Depiction from 1794:


Bing Image here: http://binged.it/147YVpM

In the 17th century the property was owned by Sir Luke Fitzgerald, who I think was involved in the Confederate Wars (1641 - 1643) which may explain the origins of the fort..

Found this too:
"Sir Luke Fitzgerald (born 1586), a seventeenth-century lawyer and justiciar, defended his castle at Tecroghan from Cromwell's army in 1652 but had to surrender. He married Mary, daughter of Nicholas, first Viscount Netterville, and Eleanor Bathe. She is remembered as "Colonel Mary" for her part in the defense of Tecroghan. They had at least two daughters: Eleanor, who married Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo, and died in 1693 (one son, Luke; no grandchildren); and Jane, who married Matthew Plunkett, 7th Baron Louth, in 1664."

Seems Cromwell May have taken over the fort (and maybe even added to it) as per the following account: http://books.google.ie/books?id=gEZFAAAAYAAJ&dq=Tecroghan&pg=PA462#v=onepage&q&f=false

More on the Cromwellian "Siege of Tecroghan" : http://books.google.ie/books?id=nkENAAAAYAAJ&dq=Tecroghan&pg=PA540#v=onepage&q&f=false

A wikipedia article on the "Battle of Tecroghan" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tecroghan

cfuserkildare

Excellent find mate,

Due to restrictions at work, I cannot access Archaeology.ie,

I can see so much in that general area I would have expected a lot more people to know about it.

There is a lot in the immediate vicinity that it must be related, espescially W.SW of the fort.

cfuserkildare

Another thing I noticed

53.421438,-6.648295,

and

53.422193,-6.649379

however, although they are visible on Archaeology.ie, they are not visible on Google Maps.ie. Nothing is noted for them.