Ireland · 12th century
Killeen Castle, Dunsany ranks #4,153 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #64 of the 178 mapped in Ireland. Founded c. 1180, it is older than 78% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,040 times in the last 60 days, more than 52% of the atlas. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Drogheda, 25 km away. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
Killeen Castle (Irish: Caisleán an Chillín), located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th-century structure, burnt out in 1981.
Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north, the other being the extant Dunsany Castle. Its estate was occupied continuously by the Cusack, and then after a marriage, Plunkett, families, from 1172 to 1951.
Text adapted from “Killeen Castle, Dunsany” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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