Athlumney Castle is a tower house and fortified house and a National Monument in Navan, Ireland. The site remains accessible to the public; to enter, visitors need to place a deposit at the nearby B&B and receive a key.
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Beside Athlumney are the ruins of Athlumney castle which has a 17th century house attached. It was built in two periods. The older part is a Tower House built in the 15th century. It has three storey and its thick walls and slit windows speak of a time when castles were used for defence and not for comfort. Inside is a spiral staircase with little rooms opening off it. Holes for floor beams remain on the first floor level. The newer part of the castle is attached to the tower to its left. This was built in the late 16th century or early 17th century. It is three storey manor house with four sets of widely spaced mullioned windows. It had large corridors and its ground floor kitchen provided heat for the first floor rooms where the Lord lived. The doorway is cut limestone and there is an oriel window on its eastern wall. In 1649 when Cromwell was attacking Drogheda, the Maguires who occupied the castle set fire to it to thwart Cromwell. Nearby are the ruins of a 14th century manorial church with triple belfry. In the vicinity there is a motte and bailey. This is a settlement complex where one can trace the changing forms of a manorial building in Meath since the Norman conquest, it features a motte or artificial hill of the first settlement in the late 12th century.
Access to Athlumney Castle is via the nearby Athlumney Manor B&B. A key may be borrowed from Pat Boylan, upon leaving a...
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It's fine if you are around to take a look from some distance, but there is no information about possibility of visiting inside parts of the castle. Google says it's open, but that was all we knew. Other reviewers gave some tips about owner and some keys?, but I'm already in other country, so there is no way to...
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A nice castle is good condition, the key holder lives in the housing estate behind the castle but there are no details on the castle entrance informing visitors how to obtain the key. So most people will have to settle with photos through the metal gate and from around the castle grounds. It has good...
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