Castlejordan

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlejordan, from 14 m² to 576,996 m² (57.7 ha, 142.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 76 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2661100

• 24 Aug 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2661066

• 6 Aug 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660996

• 14 Jul 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660890

• 28 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission to construct a new 28x44m all-weather surface pitch to include fencing and 4 no. 10m high floodlights and all associated ancillary site services

  Permission · Meath County Council, 22846

• 14 Apr 2022Refused

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, installation of a septic tank/percolation area, vehicular entrance and any associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22494

• 6 Jan 2022Refused

  EXTENSTION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION TA180997 - 1.5 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage & store. install a proprietary wastewater treatment system & all associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 224

• 24 Mar 2020Conditional

  the construction of a gymnasium/training facility single storey building for club member's use and any associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA200395

• 11 Feb 2020N/a

  a single storey extension to the west elevation of existing two-storey house and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA200149

• 6 Dec 2019N/a

  a single storey extension to the west elevation of existing two storey house, and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA191655

• 30 Aug 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a 1.5 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA180997

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlejordan.

Recorded monuments

• ME052-002 Mound
  Description

  Situated on a broad rise with a NNE-SSW section of the Castlejordan River c. 250m to the E. It is located c. 1km N of where the Castlejordan River meets the W-E Yellow River, which is a tributary of the River Boyne and forms the boundary with County Offaly. A NW-SE section of the Yellow River is c. 550m to the SW. This is a circular flat-topped mound (diam. of top 8m N-S; diam. of base 30m N-S; c. 32m E-W; H 5m at N to 5.2m at S) with some scrub. There are some large blocks of fallen masonry on the surface, which may have come from the castle (ME052-002001-) c. 50m to the ENE as there is no evidence of foundations at the mound. The linear earthwork (ME052-002002-) is just to the W, and the mound is 23.5m S of an E-W trench (at W: Wth of top 18m; Wth of base 7m; D 2.5-2.8m) which decreases in magnitude and merges into the surface as it extends E (L c. 80m). The feature was interpreted as a motte and bailey (Moore 1987, 157) because of the configuration of earthworks, but the mound could be a barrow, a motte or a spoil mound from the quarrying of the trench. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 15 August 2016

• ME052-002001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a broad rise with a NNE-SSW section of the Castlejordan River c. 225m to the E. It is located c. 1km N of where the Castlejordan River meets the W-E Yellow River, which is a tributary of the River Boyne and forms the boundary with County Offaly. A NW-SE section of the Yellow River is c. 600m to the SW, and the remains are c. 50m NE of the mound (ME052-002----). This structure is depicted as a rectangular enclosure on the 1908 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The centre of a grass-covered structure has been excavated (dims 12m N-S; 7.3m E-W; D 0.8-1.6m) with the inner face of the W wall (Wth 1.1m; ext. H 0.5m) exposed, revealing a buried relieving arch. Traces of the inner face of the E wall are also evident (int. dim. 6.7m E-W) with an inserted wall (Wth 0.5m) extending W from it. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 15 August 2015

• ME052-002002 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a broad rise with a NNE-SSW section of the Castlejordan River c. 250m to the E It is located c. 1km N of where the Castlejordan River meets the W-E Yellow River, which is a tributary of the River Boyne and forms the boundary with Co. Offaly. A NW-SE section of the Yellow River is c. 550m to the SW. The mound (ME052-002----) is just to the E of the S end of this feature, and the church (ME052-003----) is c. 200m to the NE. This consists of two grass-covered earthen banks extending N-S (L c. 80m) in a small area of mixed woodland. An earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 5.8m; Wth of top 2.8m; H 0.6-0.7m) is separated by a fosse (at S: Wth of top 7m; D at W 0.4m) from another bank (at S: Wth of base 5.6m; Wth of top 2.8m; H at W 0.7m) to the W and there is another fosse (at S: Wth of top 5.7m; D at W 1m) outside this to the W. The features decline in magnitude towards the N where they meld into the ground surface. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 15 August, 2016

• ME052-003 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise above a N-S section of the WNW-ESE Castlejordan River, which is c. 180m to the E. A church at Kirnegedach is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire., 5, 257). The rectory of Castlejordan was owned by the Augustinian abbey of Ballyboggan (ME046-018----) at its suppression in 1540 (White 1943, 312). Ussher describes the church and chancel of Castlejordan as altogether ruined (Erlington 1847-64, 1, xcix). According to the Dopping (1682-5) and Royal visitations (1693) the church and chancel of Castlejordan [alias Kernekedah] were in good repair. It had a slate roof, glass in the windows and a clay floor. It had a font but the condition of the graveyard is not recorded (Ellison 1973, 11). A Church of Ireland church was built in 1826 at Castlejordan or Gungedagh (Lewis 1837, 1, 299), but this is now reduced to the W tower and the W gable. There is no trace of the medieval church in the subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S at E to c. 70m N-S at W) defined by masonry walls on every side except the W where there is a wide moat (Wth of top c. 6-8m; D 2-3m) that is part of a WNW-ESE mill-race, which enters the Castlejordan river c. 200m to the SE. The headstones date mostly from c. 1775 to 1914, but the headstone (Wth 0.5m; H 0.77-0.87m; T 0.18m) to Francis Digbie has an English inscription in roman capitals carved in false relief and the date 1?62, probably 1562. The castles (ME052-004----; ME052-005----) are c. 135m and 115m to the SE respectively, and the motte and bailey (ME052-002----) and castle (ME052-002001-) are c. 190 and c. 135m to the SW respectively. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 13 April, 2015

• ME052-003001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise above a N-S section of the WNW-ESE Castlejordan River, which is c. 180m to the E. There is no trace of the medieval parish church of Castlejordan (ME052-003----) in the subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S at E to c. 70m N-S at W) defined by masonry walls on every side except the W where there is a wide moat (Wth of top c. 6-8m; D 2-3m) that is part of a WNW-ESE mill-race. The headstones date mostly from c. 1775 to 1914, but the 16th century headstone of Francis Digbie (ME052-003002-) is close to the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April, 2015

• ME052-003002 Headstone
  Description

  Within the graveyard associated with the site of the medieval parish church of Cloghjordan (ME052-003----), and close to the perimeter at E. the headstone (Wth 0.5m; H 0.77-0.87m; T 0.18m) to Francis Digbie has an English inscription in roman capitals carved in false relief, with the date 1?62, probably 1562. It reads: HERE LIETHE THE / BODIE OF FRANCES / DIGBIE OF COLSIL / ESQVIRE WHO / DECEASSED I / X DAE OF IVNE / 1?62. It was first recorded by Moore (c. 1975) who identifies Colsil as Colehill, a townland c. 2km to the NE. See the attached image Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April, 2015

• ME052-004 House - fortified house
  Description

  Border trouble between O’Connor of Offaly and the Birminghams of Carbury (KD008-001002-) in 1540 produced the suggestion that a castle at Castlejordan and another at Kynafad would reduce the opportunities for O’Connor to enter the Pale (Devitt 1896-9, 108). When counties Laois and Offaly were planted under Queen Mary, Philipstown now called Daingean, was established as the principal strongpoint of the new King’s County in the 1550s. Phillipstown’s principal communications would have been with Trim, Co. Meath, by an overland route that passed through Castlejordan. The bridge (ME052-006----) is 60m to the E and this structure could have been built to protect it, although there is no documentation that can be associated with its construction. In 1601 it is recorded that ‘the ward of Castlejordan’ resisted an assault by Sir Rurke Burke (Cal. Carew Docs, 4, 41). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the part of Castlejordan parish in county Meath, amounting to almost 400 acres, was owned by Sir John Giffard in 1640, and on the property at Castle Jordane was ‘one castle and two mills’ (Simington 1940, 190-1), but the castle is more likely to be the tower house (ME052-005----), which is c. 60m to the SW. This house is situated in the valley of the Castlejordan River with a NNE-SSW section of the stream c. 50m to the SE. It is also located c. 1km N of where the Castlejordan River meets the W-E Yellow River, which is a tributary of the River Boyne and forms the boundary with County Offaly. The mound (ME052-002----) is c. 240m to the WSW and the site of the parish church (ME052-003----) is c. 130m to the WNW. This structure has a rhomboid or diamond-shaped ground plan (ext. dims c. 9m E-W; c. 8m N-S) with a circular stairs tower (ext. diam. c. 4m; int. diam. 1.55m) at the obtuse NW angle and a similar tower (int. diam. 2.6m; ext. diam. c. 4.5m) with five gun-loops on the ground floor at the obtuse SE angle, but the NE angle is acute (60 degrees). This structure most resembles Ireton’s Castle (TN003-001001-) at Lehinch, Co. Tipperary, and probably dates from the late sixteenth century. The original doorway is not identified, but was probably on the S or W walls, which are now largely destroyed at ground level. The ground floor of the main structure (int. dims 6.9m E-W; 6.2m N-S) has three surviving gun-loops and there is a fireplace in the E wall, but there are no windows and there is no barrel-vault. The first floor has at least two small rectangular windows and three gun-loops cover the NE angle, but the SE tower has three gun-loops and its doorway had a wooden lintel. There is a fireplace on the S wall and the SW angle is supported on a squinch over the ground floor. The joists for the first floor seem to have been set directly into the walls, and there is evidence of a second floor in the E tower, floored in a similar manner. The stairs continue to rise in the W tower, but the battlements do not survive and the structure is overgrown with ivy. Extending WSW from the fortified house is a bawn wall (L c. 40m; T 1.2m; H c. 4m), overgrown with ivy and with some breaks, probably where dressed stone has been removed from embrasures. The tower house (ME052-005----) is c. 60m to the SW of the fortified house and may have occupied the SW angle of the bawn, but no traces of the bawn wall are associated with it and a later walled garden (dims c. 75m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) occupies much of the area of the bawn. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 15 August 2016

• ME052-004002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated in the valley of the Castlejordan River with a NNE-SSW section of the stream c. 50m to the SE. Extending WSW from the fortified house (ME052-004----) is a bawn wall (L c. 40m; T 1.2m; H c. 4m), overgrown with ivy and with some breaks, probably where dressed stone has been removed from embrasures. The tower house (ME052-005----) is c. 60m to the SW of the fortified house and may have occupied the SW angle of the bawn, but no traces of the bawn wall are associated with it and a later walled garden (dims c. 75m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) occupies much of the area of the bawn. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 August, 2016

• ME052-005 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In 1551 Elizabeth Duke, a widow, took a lease of the manor of Castlejordan consisting of the land of Castlejordan, and the largely unknown territories of Killynaghe, Balycowen, and Kilecroo alias Hardewood, Co. Meath, and Ballyaghtree, Co. Kildare. These were the late possessions of Thomas Lynaghe, attainted (Nicholls 1994, 1, 178). Elizabeth married Richard Crofte, who received title in 1566 but the property was to revert to Elizabeth’s sons from her first marriage, Henry and then Edward (ibid. 2, 111). This was confirmed in 1583, but the following year Henry Duke took a lease on the lands of the former abbey of Ballyboggan (ME046-018----) (ibid. 2, 600-01, 3, 50). Henry must have come into his inheritance, but he mortgaged his property for £100 in 1592. However, this was redeemed in 1596-7 by Edward Loftus of Rathfarnam, husband of his daughter Anne, and Richard Gyfford of Ballymaggarrett (?), Co. Roscommon, husband of his daughter Mary. They received title with the intention of dividing the property, which now included the castle of Clonmore (OF004-010----) (ibid. 3, 269-70, 276). Gyfford died in 1595 but his son Sir Richard became established at Castlejordan. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Sir John Gifford, a Protestant, owned almost all the land in Castlejordan parish within Co. Meath (Simington 1940, 190-1). Mary Duke married a second time to Sir Francis Rush, with whom she had a son and three daughters. Mary married for a third time to Sir John Jephson, whose daughter Elizabeth from an earlier marriage married Sir Richard Gifford of Castlejordan (Shirley 1879, 172-3, 180). Henry Duke’s interests had been extensive, and in 1586-7 he had discovered the ‘hidden’ lands of Clones abbey (MO011-010001-), which he promptly leased from the Crown. Rush renewed the lease on the Clones land in 1603 and this property descended through their eldest daughter, Elanor, and her husband, Sir Robert Loftus, to the Lennard-Barrett family (ibid. 174), who remained a prominent, although absentee, family in Clones into the nineteenth century (Lewis 1837, 1, 359-60). This outcome may have been unsatisfactory for Elanor’s sister, Mary Rush, as in 1632 she and her step-father, John Jephson of Lecarrowlonbyogge (Lecarrow village?), Co. Roscommon, sought a share of the Henry Duke estate (Cal. Pat. Rolls, Charles I, 608). The tower house might have been built by any of these people, but if the date-stone (ME052-005001-) came from it then Sir John Gifford is probably responsible. The date-stone (Wth 0.31m; H 0.24m) is limestone with 1632 carved in relief, and it is now built into the outer wall of the return of the present farmhouse. The tower house is situated in the valley of the Castlejordan River with a NNE-SSW section of the stream c. 80m to the SE, and it is located c. 1km N of where the Castlejordan River meets the W-E Yellow River, which forms the boundary with Co. Offaly and is a tributary of the River Boyne. Only the N part of this structure (int. dims 4m plus N-S; 3.65m E-W) survives, consisting of the ground floor apart from evidence of the S wall, and it is surrounded by cairn material developed as a rockery. A circular tower at the NW angle only survives at the ground floor with evidence of a cross-loop, but the NE circular tower (int. diam. 2m) contained a newel stairs, now completely removed, and it survives to what is probably the third floor. There is a limestone plaque (Wth 0.54m; H 0.42m) with a chamfered frame (dims 0.62m x 0.0.46m) on the outside of this tower at ground level on the N side, but the inscription is worn away. Two pointed doorways in limestone lead from the stairs tower to the main chambers at upper levels, which do not survive otherwise, and there appears to have been no vaulting. There are narrow lights on the stairs tower but some facing N are expanded into larger, though still small, rectangular windows and the top of the tower might have been rebuilt in brick. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 August 2016

• ME052-005001 Inscribed stone
  Description

  A limestone plaque (Wth 0.31m; H 0.24m) with the date 1632 carved in relief is now built into the outer wall of the return of the present farmhouse, which is thought to be the oldest part of the house, but it might have come originally from either the nearby fortified house (ME052-004-----) or the tower house (ME052-005----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 August, 2016

• ME052-006 Bridge
  Description

  The bridge at Castlejordan is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of Moyfenrath barony (see this web-page accessed on 21/07/2016: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Moyfenrath&c=Meath The causeway on the W side of bridge has two arches (Wth 2.7m) of undressed stone, both of which have wicker centring. The causeway has been expanded on N side The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 16 August 2016

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, with banded shaft, fluted neck, fluted cap with finial, spout and curved pumping handle. Enclosed by cast-iron railings.

• Telephone box, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Concrete telephone box, erected c.1950, with moulded concrete cap, glazed panels and glazed door.

• Castlejordan Church, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached square-profile three-stage entrance tower with castellations and pinnacles, built 1823, formerly part of a church. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone ashlar corner buttresses, string courses, date plaque. Pointed arch openings with ashlar limestone surrounds and hood mouldings. Graveyard to site. Ashlar limestone gates piers with cast-iron double gates set in rubble stone walls.

• Castlejordan Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Segmental-arch road bridge over river, built 1860. Dressed limestone walls with ashlar voussoirs, impost mouldings and copings. Flanked by earlier medieval sections to the north-west and south-east.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlejordan.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Castlejordan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Castlejordan · Caisleán Shiurdáin

Area

2,207,300 m² (220.73 ha, 545.44 acres)

Civil parish

Castlejordan, and its townlands

Barony

Moyfenrath Upper

Electoral division

Castlejordan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlejordan electoral division: 440 people in 150 households; 86% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnell, Ballyfore, Clongall, Clonmore (Co. Offaly), Harristown, Killowen (Co. Offaly), Lewellensland

Placenames

Castlejordan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.