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Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Accommodation. Tags: Athlumney Castle, Castle Arch Hotel, County Meath, Duleek road, Ireland, Navan, Royal County, Trim, Trim Castle. Comments: 1

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Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Uncategorized. Tags: Adamnans Pavilion, Ath Truim, Blackwater, Boyne, Boyne Valley, Catholic King James II, Christian Celtic, churchyard, Co. Meath, Cormac mac Airt, Cormacs House, County Meath, Critachain, Dowth, Dublin, High Kingship, Ireland, Irish rebels, Irish Sea, Kells, King Johns Castle, La Tone, Lathrach an Forraid, Leinster, Lough Sheelin, Meath, monuments, Mur Tea, Mycensaean, National Museum, Navan, Orange, Paganism, Petric, Portray, Professor Macalister, Protestant King William, Rath na Riogh, Rath Riogh, Rath Riogi, River Boyne, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Meath, Scandinavia, Sheve Bregh, Silurian, stones, Tara, Teach Clwrmaic, Ternary Breg, Teuch Chormaic, The New Grange, Touch Miodchuarta, Treasury of Atreus, Trim, Trim Castle, Tuatha, Ulster, Yellow Book of Lecan. Comments: None

The ruins of Trim Castle are. more extensive than those of any other castle in Ireland. Trim is the ancient Ath Truim (the ford of elder-tree) : the ancient ford can still be seen above the town bridge over the Boyne. The castle was built to protect this. Though it is commonly called King Johns Castle the present castle, which is Edwardian in plan, was certainly not. built until after the date of Johns visit to Ireland. A castle was founded at Trim by Hugh de Lacy in 1173 ; probably this was only an earthen mote with a wooden stockade. The present ruins occupy about two acres. The principal feature is the keep, which is Norman in type ; the draw- bridge, portcullis and gateway arc also well preserved. The castle was defended by a moat fed by water from the River Boyne

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Posted on April 17th, 2008 under Architecture. Tags: Ath Truim, Boyne, Ireland, King Johns Castle, Meath, River Boyne, Trim, Trim Castle. Comments: None