County: Meath Site name: TRIM
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: P.D. Sweetman, Office of the Public Works
Site type: Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 680100m, N 756780m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.554826, -6.791115
Prior to the laying of pipes for a water scheme, an area between the river and the north curtain wall was investigated. Trial trenches were excavated close to the curtain wall to see if a moat existed at this side of the castle. The original line of the river bed was located but there was no evidence ot a moat. The remains of part of a square tower were uncovered along the line of the curtain wall and east of the site of the 15th-century mint. Medieval and post-medieval pottery was recovered from the cuttings and was found in deliberate filling in the area between the curtain wall and the river.
