castles historical around east navan

Slane Castle is now in the owner ship of Lord Henry Mountcharles and is one of the most important statley homes in Ireland. Since 2001 the castle is open for guided tours .
King George IV's left his writing desk here when his visited the home of his mistress, Lady Conyngham. The castle is beautifully located on the banks of the Boyne, the castle boasts a gothic revival ballroom, one of the finest in Europe.

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In 1429 King Henry VI promised a grant of £10 to every one of his subjects who built a castle 20 feet long, 16 feet wide and 40 feet high before 1439 in Counties Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Louth. As this castle roughly conforms to these measurements, it is quite probable that it is one of these '£10 castles'.

There are 3 storeys, of which the ground floor is vaulted. The corners of the castle are rounded, and a projecting tower at the south-western corner contained the spiral stairc...

Just a few kms south of Drogheda lies Gormanstown Castle. Built in 1768 by Sir Jelico Preston on the site of the original Castle dating from 1372, the castle has a fine quadrangular castellated edifice and a turret adorns each of the castle's corners except for the north-west corner.
In legends it was said that when the head of the Gormanston family was on his dead bed, all the foxes of Meath would to the come and sit by the front door of the castle as a vigil until his lordship had passe...