Manorland (1st Division)

157 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Manorland (1st Division), from 3 m² to 76,518 m² (7.65 ha, 18.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 126 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1C1 - Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3H1 - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Jul 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of a proposed dormer window to rear elevation, internal renovations & alterations in the attic, all elevational changes, and all associated site works. The Trim Parochial House is located within the curtilage of the protected structure of St. Patrick's Church (91278).

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660842

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  the construction of 5 no. two bed, detached and semi-detached, aged friendly bungalows and 16 No. one bed, terraced and semi-detached, aged friendly bungalows inclusive of all services. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Assessment (NIS)

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660812

• 15 May 2026N/a

  the phase 2 stage of development will consist of the construction of a single and two storey sports facility building with solar roof panels and a ancillary outdoor sports arena comprising of 200m 6 lane running track, a 6 lane 100m sprint track, a 500m perimeter running and walking trial, including long jump, high jump, javelin and shot putt facilities with track and field lighting, car parking and set down area, bicycle parking and the erection of secure boundary perimeter fence with vehicular and pedestrian entrance gates around the site and including connection to existing services where required together with all ancillary site development works. This stage 2 development includes revisions to previously granted phase 1 stage of the development (Planning Ref: 24/84)

  Permission · Meath County Council, 26137

• 7 May 2026Conditional

  permission for retention of educate use and planning permission for change of use for additional areas at existing school premises at Trim Educate Together National School, The Maudlins, Trim, Co. MEATH. The development will consist of permission for retention of education use of 1405 sq.m and planning permission for proposed change of use from community and social center to education use including internal modifications of 268 sq.m. Proposed works include new soft play external play areas, security fencing and all associated site works all on existing Trim Educate Together National School site of 0.4088 hectares

  Permission · Meath County Council, 26127

• 9 Mar 2026Conditional

  the development consists of the construction of a two-storey extension to the side of existing dwelling, a single storey extension to the front and all site works associated with the proposed development

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660277

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of: Alterations to the first floor of the existing hotel to provide for additional bedrooms which will consist of: (i) change of use of restaurant area at 1st floor level to provide for 7 no. en-suite bedrooms; (ii) change to internal layout to provide for associated corridors, internal doors and necessary alterations. There are no external changes proposed; and (iv) all other associated engineering works, drainage, landscaping, lighting, and ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660137

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  proposed repair and refurbishment of three terraced houses (all Protected Structures), and includes for removal of existing modern single-storey rear extension at No. 2. Erection of new single-storey rear extensions are proposed for the rear of each of the three properties, with associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660128

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of change of use of first floor over McCormack’s Bar from restaurant previously granted permission under planning ref. no. TT/60007 to boutique accommodation comprising 9 no. en suite bedrooms with separate access and stairs at ground floor level. The development also includes signage together with all services connected to existing mains and associated site works. The site is located within the Trim Historic Architectural Conservation Area

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460956

• 2 Feb 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the change of use from residential convent to tourism accommodation in ten apartment suites, removal of modern toilet and bathroom block, reconfiguration, refurbishments, repairs and alterations to the internal layout. The ten apartment suites will be available for short term let, which will include, at times, letting out the convent as a whole, including the chapel. The development will include new storage areas, bike store and plant room in existing sheds, new canopy to the rear entrance, changes to the elevations, changes to the site layout, connection to all public services and all associated site works. The Convent is a protected structure, ref: 91275, and is located within the Trim historical architectural conservation area and the Trim zone of archaeological potential. Trees to be protected are located within the convent site

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460076

• 18 Sept 2023Refused

  the construction of 8 no. two bed aged friendly bungalows and 15 no. one bed semi-detached aged friendly bungalows inclusive of all services. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 23 homes · Meath County Council, 23897

• 28 Aug 2023Conditional

  Retention of alterations and amendments made to elevations and floor plan of existing single storey retail unit together with permission for (a) change of use from retail unit to Café, (b) amend internal layout, (c) erect signage to front elevation, (d) Complete all ancillary site works and associated site structures

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360245

• 17 Nov 2022Refused

  change of use of existing domestic garage to a habitable space ancillary to existing dwelling to consist of one bedroom and interior alterations, with all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221497

• 11 Nov 2022N/a

  change of use of existing domestic garage to a habitable space ancillary to existing dwelling to consist of one bedroom and interior alterations, with all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221469

• 28 Oct 2022Refused

  the removal of two existing 14 metre telecommunications timber support structures with antennas attached (of 16.5m overall height) and the construction of a proposed new 18 metre monopole support structure (overall height 19.5 metres) carrying new telecommunications antennas, dishes and associated equipment, together with new ground level equipment cabinets, fencing and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221404

• 23 May 2022Conditional

  the development being retained consists of change of use of carport to side of dwelling previously granted planning permission under planning reference no. TA/190773 to home office and gym to include modifications to elevations together with all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 22667

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  the two existing 14 metre telecommunications timber support structures with antennas attached (16.5m overall height) and associated equipment within the exchange compound

  Retention · Meath County Council, 22136

• 25 Jan 2022Conditional

  a detached storey and a half style dwelling, new site entrance, connection to existing public mains facilities and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2273

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  permission to develop site comprising of 0.276 hectares as a recreational area/play ground, and to erect internal palisade security fencing 2.4 metres in height on West, North and Eastern boundaries adjacent to existing school grounds at The Maudlins, Trim and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21628

• 5 Mar 2021Conditional

  development will consist of temporary permission for 2 no. prefabricated mainstream classrooms to include toilet facilities located to the rear of the school building together with connection to all existing mains services on site and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21431

• 15 Jan 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of installation of p.v. solar panels on the rear of roof to dwelling house together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2169

• 29 Sept 2020Conditional

  planning permission for minor alterations to previously approved Permission Reg. Ref. 98/16 at their private dwelling a Protected structure. The development will consist of Internal alterations to the rear existing 1999 single storey extension only, including modifications to internal layout, replacement external windows and doors, alterations to three existing openings, removal of one chimney and addition of new rooflights. External works will include minor revisions to drainage, landscaping, small storage shed and new garden wall

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA201367

• 8 Jul 2020Conditional

  "DIRECT APPLICATION TO AN BORD PLEANALA - SUBMISSION TO AN BORD PLEANALA". The development will consist of the following: • 320 no. dwellings comprising: o 136 no. houses comprising 10 no. 2-bed, 105 no. 3-bed and 21 no. 4-bed; o 120 no. apartments within 4 no. 3-5 storey blocks comprising 11 no. studio, 30 no. 1-bed, 71 no. 2-bed and 8 no. 3-bed; o 64 no. duplex apartments within 8 no. 3-storey blocks comprising 32 no. 2-Bed and 32 no. 3-Bed. o All units with associated private gardens/ balconies/ terraces to the north/ south/ east/ west elevations. • A creche and community centre (total floor area c.739 sq.m). • 563 no. car parking spaces, 188 no. secure/covered bike parking areas and communal bin stores for apartments/duplexes. • Vehicular and pedestrian accesses from Summerhill Road (R158) with associated upgrades including new cycleways and footpaths. • All other site works, landscaping, boundary treatments, ESB substation/switchrooms, plant and services provision required to facilitate the development.he application contains a statement setting out how the proposal will be consistent with the objectives of the Meath County Council Development Plan 2013-2019 and Trim Development Plan 2014-2020.

  Permission, 319 homes · Meath County Council, SH307507

• 16 Aug 2019N/a

  the construction of a pair of semi-detached one and a half storey dwellings, new entrances off Summerhill Road and Mornington View, connection to all public services and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA191070

• 2 Jul 2019Conditional

  a partial 3 and partial 4 storey exenstion comprising 43 bedrooms over the existing basement car park and surface car park with a first floor link to the existing hotel, minor alterations to the first floor to allow access to the link, rearrangement of the surface car park, minor elevational changes to the existing hotel, connection to public services and all associated site works. The building is located within the Trim Historic Core Architectural Conservation Area. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA190860

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  re-constructing existing roof to form new dormer extension at first floor level, new single storey porch to front, single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling together with a single storey extension to front on north west side of dwelling. The development also includes new detached domestic garage and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA190773

The 25 most recent of 35 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME036-048004 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  Situated on a hillock on the SW bank of a NW-SE run of the River Boyne and probably at the limit of that river’s navigation. Like the whole town of Trim the castle was on land that seems to have always been Church land (Duffy 2011, 8-9). In 1172 Henry II granted Meath to Hugh de Lacy ‘as Murrough O’Maelaghlin best held it’ (Otway-Ruthven 1967, 52-3). This king of Meath died in 1153 before the province was dismembered, so in theory de Lacy’s fief, if he could secure it by settling suitable territories with his liegemen, was as extensive as the modern counties of Meath, Westmeath, Longford, and a large part of NW Offaly. Hugh decided that Trim would be the caput or centre of this vast estate and commenced planning a suitable headquarters for it in a castle that would be defensively strong as well as visually impressive and capable of administering a wide area. Because one of the first accounts of the castle in the 1830s by Richard Butler (1861, 25) suggests that the castle was built in 1220 this date has been followed by some later writers. However, excavation (95E0077) by Hayden (2011), together with historical research (Duffy 2011), the conservation (Cummins 2011) and recording (O’Brien and Fenlon 2002) of the masonry structures, and a re-interpretation of an earlier excavation (E00094) by Sweetman (1978), elucidates its entire structural history. THE KEEP The first defensive structure was the ringwork castle (ME036-048033-) but this can only have lasted until c. 1175 as de Lacy commenced construction of the masonry keep around that time (Duffy 2011, 9-10), and this is confirmed by dendrochronological dates from the keep itself (Condit 1996). The keep has the unique design of a large rectangular central block (ext. dims c. 20m x c. 20m) which has large square towers (ext. dims c. 8m x c. 7m) attached at the centre of each wall. It rises to four stories including the ground floor or basement level. The first phase consisted of the ground floor (Basement) and Level 1 of the keep, the walls of which rose up to the height of Level 2, and the same levels of the attached towers. In the keep the scars of the double roof over Level 1 can be seen rising through Level 2 in the internal faces of the N and S walls, and the scars of the lean-to roofs of the attached towers can also be seen (McNeill 1990, 314-6). The roof was originally supported by a central pillar, and the springing of a stone arch survives in the E wall at Level 1. The basement levels in all the towers belong to this phase, and the foundation trenches of the W and S towers describe semi-circles against the keep (Hayden 2011, 117-20), indicating that it may have been laid out on the medieval ‘cana’, a measurement of 2.2m and another of 0.7m (ibid. 106). It is clear from deposits excavated from the towers that occupation continued into the late fifteenth century (ibid. 116-7, 119, 269). There is no well within the castle but rainwater was directed from the roof to the N tower where it could have been collected in barrels over the kitchen, and the exit points from a double row of holes in the N face of the keep can be seen as the N tower does not survive (ibid. 107-110; O’Brien and Fenlon 2002, 36-40). The floor of the keep at Level 1 was supported on wide offsets, but while there may have been a trapdoor to its basement level (max. potential H 4.7m) it had no natural light and would have been used for little other than storage (Hayden 2011, 120-4). Externally, the entrance doorway in the N wall of the E tower at Level 1 was reached by a wooden stairs, the foot of which was protected by a small masonry forework. Its N wall, with the abutment of a bridge across the deepened fosse of the ring-work was barely evident (ibid. 126-31). Limekilns were required for all this building, and evidence of at least seven were recovered in excavation, although most of these were post-medieval in date. A large kiln that was built into the fosse of the ringwork at NW (ME036-048081-) survived almost complete and would have provided most of the mortar for the keep. The N part of the curtain wall with the Trim Gate and the rectangular towers on the NE circuit (ME036-048078-) could be coeval with this phase. The square keep, with a square tower attached to the centre of each wall, is an almost unique, even experimental, design whose many facets could provide a degree of enfilading fire but also presented numerous angles that might be undermined. The wooden hoardings that oversailed the walls were accessed from Level 1 and were supported on projecting beams, the putlogs of which are still visible. It was a complex design that was not repeated anywhere else in Ireland. The insertion of a N-S supporting wall to Level 2, and the insertion of the Level 2 floor into the main keep constitute a second phase conducted in the 1190s by Hugh’s son Walter. Window openings had to be broken through the keep’s N and S walls (T c. 3m), and cap-houses were added at the NW and SE angles to supplement those already over the newel or spiral stairs at the other angles (O’Brien and Fenlon 2002, 40-1). The facing of a plinth or talus was added to all the external wall faces, probably as part of the second phase, and a two-storey garderobe or latrine tower was constructed just S of the W tower, only the scars of which remain. A third phase c. 1201-07 saw the addition of Level 3 to the keep, necessitating the raising of its walls and cap-houses and the raising of the projecting towers to the same height for the first time, but the crenulations do not survive. Originally, the third level of the keep was a large open space acting as a great hall but a N-S dividing wall and masonry arches were added to support the twin roofs probably before 1300 (ibid. 44-6). This wall and the arches were sketched early in the nineteenth century but both collapsed in 1820 (Butler 1861, 37). With the addition of the N-S internal wall at all levels, the eastern portion became the public part of the keep while the W, with a large fireplace at Level 1, was the preserve of the lord and his family. From the lobby inside the entrance in the E tower a passage that had two doorways led to the hall. The chapel above the lobby has an inserted aumbry and piscine beside what was a twin-light window displaced to the N in the E wall. There is an inserted sedelia or seat in the N wall, and the priest’s room is above the chapel at Level 3. This tower, and the kitchen, groin-vaulted cellar and cisterns in the N tower are accessed from a newel stairs at the NE angle of the keep, while its companion at the SW angle accessed storerooms in the S tower and the lord’s chamber at Level 2 in the W tower. This room has an inserted twin-light ogee-headed W window, a fireplace inserted in the N wall and access to the garderobe tower. Like all the projecting towers it originally had a lean-to roof which was replaced by a wooden cruck-frame roof, the supporting corbels of which are still present (O’Brien and Fenlon 2002, 43). Above it was probably the lord’s bed-chamber with an inserted two-light rectangular window in the W wall. Both newel stairs accessed the battlements and the great hall at Level 3, which probably did not function long as it would have been replaced by the new Great Hall (ME036-048079-) inside the N angle of the castle ward. LATER HISTORY OF THE CASTLE, MANOR AND LIBERTY OF TRIM The castle was finished by 1224 when it had to be recaptured by the justiciar, William Marshall the younger, from William, a younger half-brother of Walter de Lacy, after a seven week siege (CDI 1203; ME036-048075-). Walter’s sons having pre-deceased him, Hugh’s original lordship was divided between Walter’s granddaughters Matilda and Margaret in 1244. However, Trim castle remained in the King’s hands until 1254 when it was returned to Matilda’s husband, Geoffrey de Geneville, with the liberty of Trim. The liberty was co-extensive with the

• ME036-048025 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  A Franciscan friary was probably founded before 1287, but its early benefactors are not known for certain (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 260). The earliest assured reference is in 1318 when a dispute arose with the Dominicans of Mullingar over the burial of Rosina de Verdun. In 1330 the friary was badly damaged by winter floods and in 1430 indulgences were granted to those who aided restoration works by the friars. It was dedicated to St Francis but later to St Bonaventure, who was canonised in 1482. Phelim O’Reilly, heir to East Breffney, was buried there in 1447, and Donal O’Fallon, a Franciscan friar and preacher, was interred there in 1500. The Trim friary adopted the Observant reform by 1460, which enjoined stricter adherence to the rules on the community. (Potterton 2005, 331-36) At the suppression in 1539 the church and chancel were still standing but could be demolished to provide material for a mansion then being constructed. A steeple, dormitory, hall, three chambers, a cemetery, a small garden and a derelict watermill were the only other possessions in the town. Twenty two acres at Mawdelynsfeld (Maudlinstown), a weir at Porchefeld, two small fields, and a park called the King’s Park were the only other possessions (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 310-1; White 1943, 307-08). The friars’ estate was purchased in 1542 by Sir Anthony St Leger, who had served thrice as Lord Deputy between 1540 and 1556, and through subsequent sales it can be concluded that the friars held about 100 acres around the town. Some of the buildings may have survived to the end of the 16th century at least (Potterton 2005, 337-9). The friars maintained a presence in the area throughout the 17th century, and early in the 18th century established a house at Meadstown that became known as Courtown Friary (ME030-010-----) (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 311, 121-4). While it is not clear if friars continued to live in Trim as well as Courtown this ended with the guardianship of John Clarke (1767-72 and 1776-7) when any mission at Trim ended (Conlon 2014). The site was used as a courthouse from at least 1554, and it is located on low-lying ground in the triangular area (dims c. 110m NE-SW; c. 90m NW-SE at NE) between Castle St. on the W, the river at NE and the castle at SE, but it is not precisely located. In 1951 burials were found in a cutting in Castle St. (ME036-048026-) (Cahill and Sikora 2011, 2, 403-05), and face corbels (ME036-048027-; ME036-048057-) in the gable of a house may be from its site. Test excavations (96E0247) on the site of a new courthouse, just S of the present building that is probably early 19th century in date identified archaeological levels and seven isolated burials (ME036-048066-) that in the main could be from the cemetery. The archaeological levels were sealed under raft foundations for the new structure. (Purcell 1999, 2000) 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: 17 February 2015 Amended: 29 August 2022

• ME036-048026 Burial
  Description

  In October 1951 human remains were discovered by workmen engaged in laying sewerage pipes in Castle Street, Trim. The bones recovered comprised three skulls and various other remain representing numerous individuals. In the lowest burial level some fragments of charred wood, identified as oak was found with the remains. There were no associated finds so the date is uncertain (Cahill & Sikora, 2011, vol. 2, 403-5). Archaeological testing (00E0700) by M. E. Byrne on buildings fronting the carpark to the E of the courthouse encountered two burials but building proceeded without further disturbance (excavatioins.ie 2000:0781). In 2003 further burials were recovered in monitoring (03E1484) a pipe-trench in Castle Street over an extent 10-45m from the junction with Market Street at a depth of 1.25m (T 0.3m plus) (O’Carroll 2006). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 11 February, 2015 Amended: 29 January 2021 O’Carroll, F. 2006 Castle Street, Trim. Urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 392, No. 1469. Bray, Wordwell

• ME036-048027 Stone head
  Description

  Two stone heads are built into the N gable of a row of cottages just S of the bridge at Trim. They are probably carved on decorated corbels from the Franciscan friary (ME036-048025-), which was in the vicinity. This is a large, eroded stone head of limestone, and no features are distinguishable now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July, 2019

• ME036-048033 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  Situated on a hillock on the SW bank of the River Boyne, with a NW-SE section of the river c. 80m to the NE. In 1172 Henry II granted Meath to Hugh de Lacy ‘as Murrough O’Maelaghlin best held it’ (Otway-Ruthven 1968, 52-3). This king of Meath died in 1153 before the province was dismembered, so in theory de Lacy’s fief, if he could secure it, was as extensive as the modern counties of Meath, Westmeath and Longford with a large part of Offaly. Hugh determined that Trim would be the caput or centre of this vast estate and commenced planning a suitable headquarters for it in a castle that would be defensively strong as well as visually impressive and capable of administering a wide area. Because one of the first accounts of the castle in the 1830s by Richard Butler (1861, 25) suggests the castle was built in 1220 this date had been followed by some later writers. However, excavation (95E0077) by Hayden (2011) in the late 1990s, together with historical research (Duffy 2011), the conservation of the structures (Cummins 2011), and a re-interpretation of an earlier excavation (E00094) by Sweetman (1978), elucidates its entire structural history beginning c. 1175. Before any grand scheme could be started the location had to be secured, and the earliest castle was in the form of a ringwork. According to the Norman-French poem ‘chanson de geste’, known in English as ‘The Song of Dermot and the Earl’ de Lacy established a fortified enclosure at Trim in 1172 which was promptly burned by Ruaraí O’Conor and just as quickly re-built (Orpen 1898, lines 3222-9; Mullally 2002). This second phase can only have lasted until 1175 when the construction of the stone keep began at the same site. (Duffy 2011, 8) Evidence of two construction phases of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 45m) was recovered in disjointed fragments outside the footprint of the keep but inside the wide fosse (Wth of top 6-10.5m; D 1.6-2.5m) that was dug around the enclosure. The fosse, whose edges were easily eroded, had not been completed at SW where there was a wide entrance gap (Wth c. 20m). At NE it was dug around rock outcrop where it probably narrowed as a consequence but this area was disturbed by later works and a quarry (dims c. 35m N-S: 11m E-W; max. D 4.5m) destroyed the outer edge of the fosse NE-SE in the middle of the fourteenth century (Hayden 2011, 217-19). The spoil from the fosse was not utilised to construct an inner bank for the ringwork. Inside the fosse at NW were the widely-spaced (c. 4-5m apart) posts (diam. c. 0.3-0.4m) of a palisade which were burnt. A large wooden structure (dims c. 10m x c. 10m) with a few widely spaced posts immediately inside the palisade at NW that had contained grain and is interpreted as a granary, also burnt down. Metalled surfaces elsewhere in the interior and a hearth outside the fosse at N also belong to this phase. (Hayden 2011, 82-91) A second line of posts inside the first on the inner edge of the fosse at NW were unburnt and represents a re-building of the palisade (ibid. 94-6). The posts are as large and are almost as widely spaced (c. 3-4m) as the earlier palisade posts and have a connecting slot-trench. The posts are also connected to posts c. 1m behind, which would have supported a wooden wall-walk. A double-faced stone wall (L 5.2m; Wth 0.5m) at NW can be associated with this phase, but structures J, L and M from an earlier excavation (Sweetman 1978, 131-3, 143-5) can be interpreted as also belonging to it (Hayden 2011, 69-71). 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: 8 July 2019

• ME036-048040 Structure
  Description

  Situated just S of the bridge, on the S bank of the canalised WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne as it flows through Trim. Archaeological monitoring (96E0175) of a pipe trench in Bridge St. cut through two walls of a cellar just beneath the street surface. The chamber (Wth 3m; H 1.75m plus) was built of stone and filled with rubble, from which a sherd of post-medieval pottery was recovered in the upper levels. The cellar was abutted by a gravel backfill on the N side and by light brown sticky clay on the S side, which was disturbed by culverts. (Meenan 1996, 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 July 2019

• ME036-048052 Building
  Description

  Located on the S bank of the River Boyne and within the ward of Trim Castle (ME036-048004-). The remains of a small rectangular structure (int. dims c. 8m E-W; c. 4.3m N-S) was excavated (E000094) as part of the conservation of the keep. This structure (J) had an introduced clay floor, and was thought to pre-date the fosse and plinth of the keep. Because of its orientation and aspects of its construction, it was suggested by the excavator that it might have been a church Sweetman (1978, 131-3). It is now thought to be one of the buildings within the ringwork castle (ME036-048033-) phase of development where it would be the only stone building (Hayden 2011, 70-1). (Potterton 2005, 59-60) 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: 18 February 2015

• ME036-048055 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located on the W side of Castle St. and outside the town wall at the S edge of Trim. A small stream known as the ‘Water of Luppard’ approached the SW angle of the town and coursed through the fosse (ME036-048042-) identified outside the town wall close to the SW angle (Potterton 2005, 175-6) but it debouched into a wider marshy area that was utilised only for gardens on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map and was only developed in the late twentieth century. Archaeological testing (02E1457) of a large area (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 80m N-S) identified a layer of dark brown or black organic material (T 0.2-0.55m) over the whole area overlying either bedrock (D c. 1.3-1.5m) or a natural of grey sand and shattered bedrock where bedrock was deeper (D 2.3m) (Hayden 2002). Some sherds of medieval pottery were recovered but it was largely archaeologically sterile, and grey silts overlay the organic material towards the E edge. Monitoring of the removal of these deposits under the same licence produced no further information (Hayden 2007). Archaeological testing (E002016) in 2006 on the Castle Lawn further E confirms the swampy nature of the ground here and the conjunction with the castle moat is identified (O’Carroll 2009a, vol. 1, 24-5) where a small burial group (ME036-048076-) was recovered. O’Carroll, F. 2009a Excavations in Townparks South, Trim, Co. Meath. Final Report. Licence No. C121 & C 139, E002016. Unpublished report, 2 vols. CRDS Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July, 2019

• ME036-048057 Stone head
  Description

  Two stone heads are built into the N gable of a row of cottages just S of the bridge at Trim. They probably carved on decorated corbels from the Franciscan friary (ME036-048025-), which was in the vicinity. This is a large, eroded stone head of limestone, and no features are distinguishable now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 July, 2019

• ME036-048066 Burial
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  Test excavations (96E0247) on the site of a new courthouse, just S of the present building that is probably early 19th century in date, identified archaeological levels and seven isolated burials, which in the main could be medieval in date and associated with the cemetery of the Franciscan friary (ME036-048025-) but was not the core of the cemetery. The archaeological levels were sealed under raft foundations for the new structure (Purcell 1999, 2000). Further archaeological testing (00E0700) by M. E. Byrne in the same area uncovered two further articulated and several other disarticulated sets of human remains (excavations.ie: 2000:781). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 February, 2015 Amended: 16 February 2021

• ME036-048076 Burial
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  Archaeological testing (E002016) during 2007 recovered the remains of six interments on Trim Castle lawn. They were all in a fragmentary condition and were dispersed over a fairly wide area (dims c. 15m x c. 10m), with one more isolated burial. Five were aligned SW-NE with the head at SW and the isolated one was aligned SE-NW with the head at SE but grave-cuts were not recognised. Five were adult males as the sixth probably was also, but the cause of death is not known in any instance (Coughlan 2009). Two of the burials returned calibrated radiocarbon dates of AD 128-1396 and 1267-1389. (O’Carroll 2009a, vol. 1, 17-21) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July, 2019 O’Carroll, F. 2009a Excavations in Townparks South, Trim, Co. Meath. Final Report. Licence No. C121 & C 139, E002016. Unpublished report, 2 vols. CRDS

• ME036-048078 Bawn
  Description

  The keep (ME036-048004-) is at the centre of a triangular ward (max. dims c. 155m NW-SE; c. 100m NE-SW) defined by a curtain wall that was built in two major phases, although direct archaeological dating for the walls is not available. The earliest phase is represented by the Trim gate in the W wall and the open-backed rectangular towers (numbered) on the river front dating to the later twelfth century and is probably Hugh’s work before his death in 1186. A second phase represented by the Dublin gate and the D-shaped towers (lettered) on the S side, together with their linking wall, which can probably be equated with Walter’s work on the keep c. 1201-07 (Hayden 2011, 188-90). On the river-front the wall was in large part only a stone-facing to a rock outcrop scarp with a levelling up of the ground inside the wall, most of which does not survive (ibid. 150-52). The S tower (1) was barely evident, but the NE wall of tower 2 (ext. dims 9.3m NW-SE; 6.4m NE-SW) survived (H 12.7m) with a base batter. Three levels with a total of three segmental-headed embrasures and simple lights are present in this wall, and there is a larger single window (Wth 0.4m) with seats at the third level. The stubs of the side-walls have evidence of a light at each stage (ibid. 154-8). North of this tower five long arrow loops survive in the wall beneath the floor level of the Great Hall of c. 1300 (ME036-048079-) when the lower loops were closed in. There may have been an upper level of loops that were removed when the SE wall of the hall was built on the same line. South-east of the hall area the curtain wall was breached when a water-gate connected with the hall was inserted (ibid. 155-9). Tower 3 at the N apex of the ward was called the Magdalen Tower. It is a large square tower (ext. dims 13.7m x 13.4m) with a basement (int. dims 5.1m x 4.9m) and evidence of two upper floors. The two upper levels were altered in the fourteenth century (ME036-048080-) when it was converted into a solar, or private chamber attached to the hall by mining back the inner faces of the walls to increase the floor space. The basement had a wooden floor supported on offsets, and it has a cupboard in the NW wall, a single light inside the curtain wall at SE and a stairs to level 1 in the NE wall. Level 1 has blocked or altered long arrow-loops (max. H 2.14m) in the SW (3), NE (3) and SE (1) walls, the embrasures of which were accessed from mural passages. There is evidence of another loop and the original ground level entrance to the tower in the SW wall leading to a newel stairs at the S angle. The only original features at level 2 are two blocked arrow loops in the NW wall. (Hayden 2011, 159-70) From the Magdalen Tower to the Trim Gate the rock base rises and so does the base level of four original arrow-loops. Much of the surviving upper part of the wall is a rebuild of the seventeenth century with shorter gun-loops and there are some putlog holes from an original hoarding. The Trim gatehouse is a rectangular block (ext. dims 11.5m E-W; 10m N-S) with an entrance passage, but its vault was added later. The gate is protected by a portcullis with a murder-hole outside and by a single murder-hole inside. Building scars on the outer wall indicate that there was a protected bridge to a forward barbican. The guardroom on the S side of the passage is now the ticket office, and a stairs from the passage on the N side leads to the room over the vault of the prison (ME036-048085-), which now has two large openings in its W wall. An external stairs from the S leads to the first floor of the gatehouse, which has been re-built with three facets at W that destroy the original loops here. A newel stairs at the centre of the S wall leads to a second floor, which has four blocked loops in its S and W walls, so it underwent alterations at some point also. (Hayden 2011, 171-3) The south line of the curtain wall was built against the scarped edge of the hill or on bedrock. The Dublin gate was built first, and the five D-shaped, open-backed towers, together with the connecting walls were filled in slightly later. The towers, denominated A-F from the west, present a rounded front outside the curtain wall and are more advanced in design than the square towers on the E wall. The lettered towers usually have two to three surviving levels, each of which had a timber floor, but each tower is slightly different. Tower A has two surviving levels with loops only on the upper one covering the outer faces of the curtain wall, which is a fairly modern rebuild between towers A and B. The latter also has two levels, each with long arrow-loops covering the adjacent curtain wall, and there is a sallyport, or minor doorway into the fosse, just E of it. Between towers B and C the wall is built on rock outcrop that was covered by a base-batter and the wall has putlogs for a hoarding near its top. Tower C has two surviving levels, and Sweetman (1978, 149) found an intra-mural stairs leading down to another sallyport just to its E. Tower D has three surviving levels and a stairs rising to the wall-walk. In addition its middle level has an arrow-loop facing into the moat. The wall from D to the Dublin gate has two arrow-loops at internal ground level and the remains of two others at a higher level. The wall itself abuts the section of wall built with the Dublin gate, as does the section from tower F to the gate, which is the most complete section of the wall with two long arrow-loops. Tower F is built over the scarp down to the river bank and has four levels, the lower two with three long arrow-loops, but the upper two levels have no openings. However, these and the parapet with horizontal gun-loops are probably a rebuild of the seventeenth century. Within the ward the remains of many medieval and post-medieval buildings were excavated. Most of these date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries but a close date for their construction or demise cannot usually be provided. (Hayden 2011, 177-87) The interiors of towers A-D were excavated by Sweetman (1978, 148-52), who uncovered similar sequences in them all of some rubble on top of clay fills retained by backing walls built in the seventeenth century to close off the open backs of the towers. The fill was introduced so that the towers could be converted into platforms for artillery in the middle of that century. The fill was derived from elsewhere within the castle and contained thirteenth or fourteenth century pottery, but sometimes it could overlay an original deposit with thirteenth century wares. The severed heads of young adult males from the seventeenth century were found in tower C, and two adult males were buried at the base of tower D, with a coin of Henry III pre-dating 1247 in the primary deposits of that tower. The outer edge of the partially rock-cut moat (Wth of top c. 12m; D 1.6m plus) adjacent to tower D (L c. 20m) was excavated (E002016) in 2006 (O’Carroll 2009, 441; 2009a, vol. 1, 23-4). The junction with the town fosse (ME036-048055-) was noted in this area also. The Dublin gate is almost perfectly preserved and was designed to be higher than the curtain wall and the towers around it. It is a subcircular structure (ext. diam. c. 11-12m) of three levels with an entrance passage through it that crossed over a wooden bridge to a forework or bartizan. The bartizan had a gateway that could be shut and two levels above the short entrance passage that are well-defended by loops. The lower of these could be reached from the main tower by a wall-walk over the bridge, but the bridge could not be raised. The main tower has gateways at either end of the entrance passage and in addition there are two murder-holes and a portcullis niche. Mural passages accessed four arrow-loops, a garderobe and a newel stairs to the two upper levels, which repeat the pattern of the ground floor with the addition of a fireplace at the first floor and windows with seats over the inner doorway. (M

• ME036-048079 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  In 1283 Geoffrey de Geneville and his wife Matilda entrusted their English and Welsh lands to their son, Peter. They retained only their Irish possessions and thus signalled a strong commitment to the liberty of Trim and the improvement of the castle which would become their home (Duffy, 2011, 14). They built the Great Hall inside the N angle of the ward, probably on their return to Ireland in 1284, although its close dating is not possible as no deposits are directly associated with it. However, deposits outside the SW wall of the Magdalen Tower where a fragment of a glass vessel provides a date in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century can be applied to the hall, and from documentary sources it is known that the hall was extant in 1326 when £20 was required for the repair of the ‘Great Hall’ and other structures (ibid. 16). Further major repairs were conducted on the ‘Red Hall’ and the Magdalen tower in 1367 (ibid. 18). The one-storey hall at Trim was perhaps the largest (max. int. dims 28.5m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) medieval hall ever built in the country. Its NE wall is built on the line of the curtain wall, and its floor is over the infilled lower arrow-loops (Hayden 2011, 196-9). An undercroft, which originally had a wooden ceiling, was excavated at its SE end to serve as a larder and store (ibid. 201-07). The present barrel-vaulted roof (int. dims 17m NE-SW; 5.6-5.85m NW-SE) with its wicker-centring is an insert as it partly blocks the doorway in the SE wall and its NW wall abuts the pillars of the hall above. The undercroft was accessed from outside by steps down from the SW and through a wide doorway (Wth 1.4m) in that wall. It also communicated through a doorway (Wth 1.55m) in the SE wall and a rock-cut passage with the watergate. This would have been punched through the curtain wall and only the base of its opening (Wth 1.85m) survives. Outside the watergate a masonry platform served as a dock, and there may have been a wooden pier outside this as bedrock is barely beneath the water level of the moat here (ibid. 207-08). The hall was an open space where the roof was supported on two arcades of four masonry pillars, the rough bases of which are still evident. The entrance was not identified but would be on the SW wall and the wooden floor was supported on offsets. The NE wall has five large embrasures over the now blocked and buried arrow-loops of the curtain wall, which is a wider wall. The wide embrasures are now blocked up with smaller defensive gun-loops of the seventeenth century, but they were positioned to light the bays between the pillars supporting the roof. Between the windows are niches (2.5m over floor level) in the wall to take bracers for a hammer-beam roof rising in stages to span the hall. From dressed stones found in the excavation each window would have had two fairly wide, pointed lights (ibid. 199, Figs 22. 23; 22, 36). The SE end of the hall was subsequently cordoned off with a small wall that might have supported a dais, although this would have been more appropriate at the other end, and the wall may have enclosed a kitchen as there is no positive evidence of such a facility anywhere in the vicinity. The hall underwent further development in the fifteenth century when the doorway at the centre of the SE wall of the undercroft was closed and a new one opened at its N end, allowing more direct access to the watergate, which would ultimately be closed and the rock-cut passage filled in. The vault of the undercroft was built, and above it at the hall level a wall connecting the most south-easterly pair of piers with the long walls separated off this end of the hall. A small structure, possibly a kitchen, was built onto the SE wall of the great hall, and the undercroft itself continued to be used into the late seventeenth century when the floor level was raised and a drain inserted at the NE end. A coin of 1689 and late seventeenth century clay pipes were recovered from these deposits (ibid. 285). See the attached view from W while under excavation Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July 2019

• ME036-048080 Castle - tower house
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  Tower 3 at the N apex of the ward (ME036-048078-) was called the Magdalen Tower, and is a large square tower (ext. dims 13.7m x 13.4m) with a basement (int. dims 5.1m x 4.9m) and evidence of two upper floors. At the same time as the hall (ME036-048079-) was constructed c. 1300 the Magdalen tower was transformed into a solar, i.e. a private domain for the lord’s family (Hayden 2011, 159-70) and took on the appearance of a tower house. A new ramp entrance to the basement of the tower was provided from the SW and the stairs to the level above was blocked (ibid. 208-13). The only access to the two upper floors was now from the N corner of the Great Hall, although evidence of this does not survive. The old arrow loops were blocked up and the floor space of the tower was increased by breaking out the mural passages of the NW and NE walls to create a large open space (int. dims 9.4m NW-SE; 8.4m NE-SW). This was provided with a fireplace at SW, and a new window embrasure in each wall, although the SW wall does not survive. There was also access at two levels to a new D-shaped garderobe or latrine tower (int. dims 3.8m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE) projecting into the moat at NE, and this tower has arches at the base to allow water flow through. The newel stairs at the S angle of the tower provided access to the floor above, which was supported on offsets on the NW and NE walls and a single corbel survives on the SE. This level has a fireplace in the NE wall, two windows with seats in the SE wall overlooking the moat, and single windows in the NE and NW walls. There is access to the garderobe tower from the N angle, and at the W angle a chamber in the wall provided access to the parapet of the solar and to the wall-walk of the W curtain wall, but only fragments of these features survive (ibid. 211-13). A fine octagonal pillar, probably re-used from a suppressed church property, was added to the basement in the later sixteenth century before that level was filled in with layers of rubble and soil by the mid-seventeenth century. At the first level the embrasure in the SE wall was widened and a platform added outside, of which only the toothing stones are now evident (ibid. 273). See the attached plan and view of the interior of the Magdalen Tower from S (1) and view of re-used pillar (2) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July 2019

• ME036-048081 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Limekilns were required for the building of the keep and the curtain walls, and evidence of at least seven were recovered in excavation. A large one that was built into the fosse of the ringwork at NW survived almost complete and would have provided most of the mortar for the keep. Its massive bowl (diam. of top 3.4m; diam. of base 2m; H 2.5m) is lined with limestone blocks that have largely fused. It had stone-lined flues at NE and SSW that narrowed towards the bowl, and it was used throughout the thirteenth century (Hayden 2011, 137-43, 149). Three seventeenth century limekilns were inside the S curtain wall and were associated with a re-fortification of the castle (Sweetman 1978, 152-5). An eighteenth century example with a rectangular stone-lined bowl had three flues, while another of the same era located NE of the keep featured in contemporary illustrations by Austin Cooper and Daniel Grose (Hayden 2011, 287-90; Pl. 4, 4; 4, 6). Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached view of the thirteenth century kiln under excavation_1 A seventeenth century kiln under excavation_2 Date of upload: 11 July, 2019

• ME036-048082 Fortification
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  The fosse around the keep, which had been kept open since the first ring-work had been built in 1172, was filled in with re-deposited boulder clay, mixed with kitchen refuse in the NW quadrant, towards the end of the thirteenth century. Coins and pottery suggest this occurred 1280-1300 (Hayden 2011, 193-5), but it is likely to have happened in conjunction with the construction of a protective masonry forework replacing the small earlier court and bridge around the entrance to the keep. Roger Mortimer, the first Earl of Marsh, succeeded to the de Geneville liberty in 1308 and was energetic in securing both the town and castle. On coin evidence he probably undertook the building of this forework, but the sub-division of the third Level of the keep, and the first version of the great hall in the N angle of the ward was more likely to have been the work of his predecessor, Geoffrey. The forework is a rectangular area (dims c. 17.5m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by masonry walls with circular towers at every angle except the SW where the W wall abutted the N tower of the keep. The NE tower is no longer extant, and the entrance was in the W wall with a causeway across the remnant of the ring-work fosse at NW. Although only the basal courses of the walls survive a stone stairs added to the inner face of the N wall provides an estimated internal H (c. 2.2m) for the parapet of the wall. The E wall was thicker (Wth 2.2m) and had four embrasures with simple lights. This wall was integral to a stable (ME036-048083-) with a wide entrance (Wth 1.7m) in the N wall. A N-S line of posts set on pad-stones divided the interior of the stable and further posts at the SW angle created four stalls or hitching-posts with a rudimentary drainage gully. (Hayden 2011, 219-28) Fifteenth century developments included the building of a new base (dims 6m N-S; 4.5m E-W) for the entrance stairs to the keep that necessitated the rebuilding of the W wall of the stable. This in turn led to the establishment of new stalls that had hitching posts set into the W wall and a new drain. A ‘washhouse’ was built between this base for the stairs and the N tower of the keep in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. It was accessed by a doorway broken through from the N tower, and this weakening of its structure may have let to the collapse of that tower. The washhouse floor sloped down to the N and had a fine stone-built drain that exited the forework at the NE angle where the corner tower had been removed. This drain probably exited through the curtain wall by the same exit as the overflow from the well (ME036-048084-). After the drain was built a new stone surface was laid in the forework. (Hayden 2011, 238-44) It is not known absolutely when the forework went out of use, but a late medieval or post-medieval building, utilising the W wall of the forework as its E wall was constructed, went out of use, and had its materials robbed before the collapse of the N tower of the keep sealed all the forework area. The forework entrance was blocked by this structure, so the forework and its stable would have been ruinous at the time of its construction. The collapse of the N tower probably happened in the early eighteenth century as late seventeenth coins underlay the collapse and eighteenth century material lay over it (ibid. 283). (Hayden 2011, 246-8) Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached views of the forework under excavation: _1 from S; _2 from N Date of upload: 11 July, 2019

• ME036-048083 Stable
  Description

  Roger Mortimer, the first Earl of Marsh, succeeded to the de Geneville liberty in 1308 and probably undertook the building of the forework (ME036-048082-) outside the keep. This enclosed rectangular area has four embrasures with simple lights in its E wall, which was integral to a stable (int. dims 10.75m N-S; 5-5.2m E-W) that has a wide entrance (Wth 1.7m) in the N wall. A N-S line of posts set on pad-stones divided the interior of the stable and further posts at the SW angle created four stalls or hitching-posts with a rudimentary drainage gully. Fifteenth century developments in the forework included the building of a new base for the entrance stairs to the keep that necessitated the rebuilding of the W wall of the stable. This in turn led to the establishment of new stalls that had hitching posts set into the W wall and a new drain. (Hayden 2011, 219-28) Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached views of the stable under excavation: _1 from S; _2 from W Date of upload: 11 July 2019

• ME036-048084 Well
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  The ward of the castle provided space for various buildings or structures, dating largely to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a precise date cannot be provided in most instances. A stone-lined well (diam. c. 1.5m; excavated D 7.8m), with an alcove (Wth 0.8m; D 0.5m; H 1.8m plus) at its base on the N side, was dug through the backfilled deposits in the quarry that was created on the site of the moat of the ring-work. It was probably built in the late fourteenth century in conjunction with the ‘washhouse’ in the forework (ME036-048082-), and it acted as a sump collecting water from the quarry. At ground level the well was surrounded by two levels of stone paving, one underlying the other. The later paving dips to the N and leads to a drain that probably joined with the drain from the washhouse within the forework. (Hayden 2011, 244-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July 2019

• ME036-048085 Prison
  Description

  A gaol seems to have been an integral part of the castle from the time of its completion since a vaulted structure (int. dims c. 6m NE-SW; c. 4.75m NW-SE) with its first floor under the vault was constructed as a unit with the Trim gate, on its N side (Hayden 2011, 170-4). The only access to the lightless basement would have been through a trapdoor from the first floor, which had an entrance on the SE wall to the interior of the castle ward. The second floor over the vault, which has two window openings on the W wall, was accessed by a mural stairs from the entrance passage of the gatehouse. The dungeon was excavated by Sweetman (1978, 147-8), who removed c. 3m of rubble over a black deposit (D 0.5m) containing late thirteenth or early fourteenth century pottery, which can probably be dated earlier now. Beneath this deposit was a flagged floor. The earliest reference to a prisoner is in 1294, and the escape of felons was recorded in 1300 (Duffy 2011, 14-15). The presence of a gaoler is mentioned frequently in documents thereafter, the prisoners often being hostages to ensure the good behaviour of Irish groups like the O’Reilly and MacGeoghegan septs, but it is doubtful if hostages would have been held in the dungeon. The documentary references are from royal records when the castle was in the King’s hands and those held at Trim were generally prominent individuals. Richard de Tuite, listed as a Keeper of the Peace or Justice in 1328-30 (Potterton 2005, 377), was incarcerated at Trim in 1344 (Duffy 2011, 16), and in 1362 Art MacMurrough, the king of Leinster, and his tániste, died there in suspicious circumstances (ibid. 18). In 1367 the prison is specifically included in refurbishment plans intended ‘to rebuild the tower beyond the west gate of the castle of Trim, as well as the chamber beyond the gaol connected to that same tower there,…’ The following year James de Bermingham of Carbury (KD008-010002-) was held there, and from 1390 seven hostages of Niall Óg O’Neill, including his son Brian, began a long stay at Trim castle (ibid. 19). King Richard II imprisoned a royal rival, the future Henry V, at Trim, and in 1402 there was a mass break-out when the entire prison population, all 28 of them, escaped. Henry V in his turn ordered the justiciar to release the Earl of Kildare, Sir Christopher Preston, and Sir John Bellew from Trim gaol in 1418 (ibid. 20-1), but others less fortunate continued to be detained. In 1468 the gaoler and his wife were murdered by the prisoner, John Haddesore of Keppock (ibid. 23). (Potterton 2005, 225-7) Despite the dilapidated condition of the castle under the Tudors, the gaol continued to be used as in 1550, and again in 1558, pardons were issued to two under-gaolers over the escape of prisoners (Duffy 2005, 24). By 1598 a great number of prisoners were held at Trim as no court was available to hear their cases (ibid. 25), and stipulations about building a ‘safe county goal’ on the site of the castle appear in leases of the manor in 1611 and 1624 (ibid. 25), so the old gaol was perhaps still functioning but in need of replacement. However, the suggestion that a gaol be built in the castle does not arise again. The court became established on the site of Franciscan friary (ME036-048025-) c. 1618 (Hennessy 2004, 12), and the goal had moved to Mill St. (ME036-048045-) by 1684 (ibid.). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July, 2019

• ME036-048086 Building
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  The ward of the castle provided space for various buildings or structures, dating largely to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a precise date cannot be provided in most instances. A building (dims c. 14.5m E-W; 12m N-S) which is known as the smaller hall was built to the SE of the Great Hall but on a slightly different alignment. It had three aisles and the bases of five of its six piers are recorded. However, as the floor was a suspended one no occupation material is associated with it and absolute dates cannot be ascribed to it but its use would date to the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. None of this hall is preserved. (Hayden 2011, 250-51) See the attached view of the smaller hall under excavation Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July 2019

• ME036-048087 Forge
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  The ward of the castle provided space for various buildings or structures, dating largely to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a precise date cannot be provided in most instances. When the smaller hall (ME036-048086-) went out of use its materials were robbed and could have been used in the building that succeed it (ext. dims c. 10.5m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW), although its walls were also robbed out. However, several floor levels were excavated, the earliest with a fine sand floor has gullies, ash spreads, a kiln and a rectangular pit, probably to retain water. Some copper alloy was recovered at this level beneath a cobbled surface with a raised masonry feature like a workbench at the centre. A third level saw further cobbling added around the workbench and large posts installed inside the SW wall, probably to support the roof. Ash and oxidized clay form the deposits throughout, and a fourth floor level is provided by another cobbled surface. It is probable that this was a forge, but as a metal-working shop it could be the historically attested Mint at the castle from 1460-1478. (Hayden 2011, 251-62) Germyn Lynch was appointed warden and master worker of the ‘Moneys and coynes’ within Trim and Dublin castles in 1461 as well as in the town of Galway, and later his brief was extended to Waterford and Limerick. He was empowered to produce silver and copper coins of specific values. The copper or brass coinage was described as: ‘imprinted with the figure of a bishop’s head, and a scripture of this word – Patrick, about the same head: and with a cross, with this word - Salvator, thereabout on the other side.’ In 1478 the Trim mint was given permission to ‘strike and coin all manner of coins of silver…according to such fyness and alloy, as in the statute for that purpose is provided’, but there is no further mention of coining at Trim. No coins made at Trim were recovered in the excavations (Hayden 2011, 270-1), and none of the structure is preserved. (Potterton 2005, 227-8; Duffy 2011, 22) See the attached view of the mint under excavation (Centre) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July, 2019

• ME036-048088 Bakery
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  The ward of the castle provided space for various buildings or structures, dating largely to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a precise date cannot be provided in most instances. Some structures, identified by the presence of clay pipe fragments, were built in the seventeenth century, and can probably be related directly to the military operations around the castle in the 1640s. Two successive ovens or kilns were built in the NW tower of the forework fortification (ME036-048082-), the walls of which were probably derelict by this time (Hayden 2011, 277-8). Isolated hearths and ovens were a feature of the period and are found in the keep (ME036-048004-) where some of the Level 1 embrasures were widened to take artillery pieces. Hearths, probably for casting lead-shot, are found in the great hall (ME036-048079-) and its solar (ME036-048080-), which are probably roofless structures at this time (ibid. 280-1). A crudely built bakehouse was constructed just SE of the old mint building (ME036-048087-). It is a narrow structure (int. dims 18m plus NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) with clay-bonded walls (Wth 0.7-0.85m), and it has an oven (int. diam. 2.3m) at its NW end. Its walls overlay the drains from the forework and the well (ME036-048084-) and appear to impinge on those of the mint. The fragmentary, grass-covered walls are still preserved at ground level. (Hayden 2019, 279) Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached view of the bakery under excavation: _1 R Date of upload: 11 July 2019

• ME036-048089 Building
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  The ward of the castle provided space for various buildings or structures, dating largely to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a precise date cannot be provided in most instances. An earthen bank or external scarp (H c. 3m at W) was erected extending S from the Trim gate, probably in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century (Hayden 2011, 216), and two medieval buildings were erected in the tail of this bank, on the E or inner side. This rectangular building (No. 2) (ext. dims 6.8m N-S; c. 6m E-W) was added to one further S (ME036-048090-) and its clay-bonded walls (Wth 0.85m) were almost completely robbed out. It had a well-laid paved floor in the S half with a straight N edge, a post-hole at the centre of the paving and a crude entrance to a N-S path in the E wall. A more diffuse paving was in the NW angle and ash-layers containing mid-seventeenth century clay pipes occupied the NE angle of the house. It is not known if the building is medieval and continued to be used until the seventeenth century or dates from the latter era. It was not conserved. (Hayden 2011, 262-69) See the attached view of the building under excavation (Right) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July, 2019

• ME036-048090 Building
  Description

  The ward of the castle provided space for various buildings or structures, dating largely to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a precise date cannot be provided in most instances. An earthen bank or external scarp (H c. 3m at W) was constructed extending S from the Trim gate, probably in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century (Hayden 2011, 216), and two medieval buildings were erected in the tail of this bank, on the E or inner side. This building (No. 1) located c. 7m S of the SE angle of the Trim gate was built first (ibid. 262-9). It is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 9.3m N-S; 5.6m E-W) defined by stone mortared walls (Wth 0.75-0.8m; max. H 1.2m), although its N wall was removed by the structure (ME036-048089-) built between it and the Trim gate. It had a doorway (Wth 1.15m) off-centre in the E wall, which was approached by a path from the N. After its neighbour to the N was built this structure was paved, its doorway blocked with a clay-bonded wall and a new entrance made at the N end of the E wall. Two S-N drains met at N before exiting through the new doorway and turning N. Three posts were added inside the W wall at the S end and this structure had been converted into a byre or stable. Mid-seventeenth century occupation occurred over a fresh floor of small stones and gravel, from which a farthing of 1625-44 and a forged fifteenth century groat were recovered (ibid. 281). The conserved walls are visible at ground level. See the attached view of the building under excavation (Left) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July, 2019

• ME036-048091 Structure
  Description

  The ward of the castle provided space for various buildings or structures, dating largely to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a precise date cannot be provided in most instances. This large structure (B) (ext. dims c. 17m E-W; c. 12m N-S) is defined by masonry walls (max. H 2m) on every side except that its NE wall is open to interpretation. It has no apparent features such as doorways or window openings but is situated between the two terminals of the ring-work fosse. Its unfaced foundations (H 0.5m) rest on the subsoil, and it was interpreted as a thirteenth century structure by the excavator (Sweetman 1978, 133-5). However, Hayden (2011, 66-69) interprets the unfaced lower parts of the walls as foundations which would have been in a trench, and posits that an extensive mortar layer below the level of the wall footings relates to the construction of the keep through which the foundations of structure B were inserted. No artefacts provide any direct dating evidence, but even Sweetman identified seventeenth century work in the upper parts of the walls. Sweetman’s Wall F, which is probably seventeenth century in date, is parallel with the S wall of structure B, and could provide its N wall. Therefore a seventeenth century date might be applied to the whole structure, including its oven (Structure C), and Hayden even suggests that it could have been ‘the competent and convenient house’ which James Carroll, lord mayor of Dublin, was required to build in a lease of the manor in 1611 (ibid. 275). Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached view of structure B from NE Date of upload: 11 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1890–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan Gothic Revival style church, built c.1900. Five bays to side elevations of nave, with flanking side aisles. Two-stage entrance tower with three-stage spire to south-west. Transepts, chancel, sacristy and side chapel to north-east. Rock-faced limestone walls with buttresses, ashlar limestone string courses, eaves dentils and dressings. Pitched slate roofs. Timber panelled double doors, set in carved surround flanked by gabled side aisle elevations. Pointed arched and rose windows with limestone tracery and stained glass windows. Carved limestone piers with wrought-iron railings, gates and rubble limestone walls. Grotto to site.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former parochial house, built 1840, with full-height projecting central entrance bay. Cement rendered walls with raised quoins. Hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge cresting. Singles, pairs, and triples of timber single-pane sash windows having lugged render surrounds. Render doorcase with elaborate pediment above. Canted bay window to east elevation.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, workhouse, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two- and three-storey former workhouse, built 1841. Comprising of fifteen-bay two-storey central block, with paired three-bay three-storey gabled blocks flanking to north and south. Rubble limestone walls. Pitched slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods. The gable-fronted blocks have timber bargeboards and louvered lancet windows. Now in use as hospital.

• Prison walls, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Limestone former gaol walls, built 1827, consisting of snecked stonework, with rock-faced banding to central section. Main entrance comprising of segmental-arched central opening, flanked by piers with stepped caps and square-headed openings. Plaques above openings. Accessed by ramps and stone steps.

• Trim Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey Garda station, built 1948, with flanking single-storey additions. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed openings with timber sash windows. Carved stone doorcase with pediment and timber panelled door accessed by stone steps. Roughly dressed rubble stone boundary walls.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c.1890. Pitched slate roof with cement rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed openings with paired cast-iron diamond pane windows having central mullion, stone sills, and label mouldings with label stops. Shoulder and flat-arched door openings with timber battened doors.

• Trim Courthouse, court house, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-bay two-storey court house, built c. 1810 , with central pedimented three-bay breakfront. Incorporating fabric of later eighteenth-century building. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with parapet. Rendered walls with ashlar quoins, plinth and dressings. Timber nine-over-nine or six-over-six sash windows with carved stone surrounds and sills. Timber panelled double doors with overlight above, set in carved stone door surround having projecting cornice and stone step. Clock to pediment. Modern extension to south.

• Trim Town Hall, town/county hall, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey town hall, built 1925, on a rectangular plan centred on three-bay two-storey breakfront; two-bay two-storey side elevations. Flat roof behind parapet. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered monolithic giant pilasters including rendered monolithic giant pilasters (breakfront) supporting monolithic cornice on blind frieze below parapet. Series of three round-headed window openings (ground floor) with rendered sills, and rendered archivolts centred on keystones framing fixed-pane fittings. Round-headed flanking door openings (end bays) with rendered surrounds including rendered archivolts centred on keystones framing timber panelled doors having overlights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with rendered sill course, and concealed dressings framing aluminium casement windows. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with sills, and concealed dressings framing aluminium casement windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of ten two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1890. Pitched slate roofs with cement rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron diamond paned paired and triple windows having central mullions, stone sills, block-and-start surrounds and label mouldings. Gabled dormer to first floor with carved timber bargeboard and cast-iron finials. Timber battened doors with block-and-start surrounds, cast-iron diamond pane overlights, stone steps and slate porches roofs sprung from carved timber corbels.

• Bridge, 1700–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch road bridge, built c.1730, with three medieval pointed-arches and one modern round-arch. Triangular cutwaters on the upstream and downstream sides of the bridge. Stone coping to parapet walls with modern lamp standards. The modern arch consists of rubble limestone with dressed voussoirs and keystone and depth marker.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2613 (ZIP).

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 Manorland (1st Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Manorland (1st Division) · Fearann an Mhainéir (an chéad roinnt)

Area

353,618 m² (35.36 ha, 87.38 acres)

Civil parish

Trim, and its townlands

Barony

Moyfenrath Lower

Electoral division

Trim Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Trim Rural electoral division: 9,201 people in 3,063 households; 74% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackfriary (2nd Division), Charterschoolland, Commons (3rd Division), Commons (4th Division), Commons (7th Division), Friaryland (3rd Division), Maudlin, Townparks North, Townparks South

Placenames

Manorland (1st Division) 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.