placenamesCastlejordan
Caisleán Shiurdáin
Castlejordan’s church buildings and former school show how religious, educational and community uses have shaped its centre.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán Shiurdáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castlejordan · English · main form
Place & story
The surviving church tower
The tower of Castlejordan's former Church of Ireland building bears the date 1823. Though the main church has been demolished, the three-stage tower survives with battlements, pinnacles and limestone buttresses. Pointed openings and dressed stone bands articulate its walls. The graveyard, carved headstones, entrance gates and boundary wall preserve the setting of a church whose full outline must now be understood through its surviving parts. [2]
Holy Trinity at the junction
Holy Trinity Catholic Church occupies the village's main junction beside the former school and water pump. Its cross-shaped plan brings together nave, transepts and chancel. The national architectural survey highlights its pointed stained-glass windows, interior fittings and carved limestone gate piers. Wrought-iron gates and railings stand at the front, while a cast-iron belfry provides a different form of bell support to the older church tower. [3]
A school becomes a community centre
Local historian Noel French records that Castlejordan's school opened in 1909. It became a community centre in 1974 when the new Saint Ciaran's Primary School opened. The change gave an older public building a fresh role rather than ending its association with local communal life. French also records Joseph John Bruntz's designs for the teacher's residence and alterations to the parochial house in the late 1920s. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Upper
- Civil parish
- Castlejordan
- Coordinates
- 53.39786, -7.11293 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414641 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlejordan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlejordan Church: NIAH 14338004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity: NIAH 14338002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Ballinabrackey: Castlejordan parish history · Noel French, Meath History Hub
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.