placenamesCastlejordan
Caisleán Shiurdáin
Remains beside the Castlejordan River preserve a different built landscape from the village’s later churches and school.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Caisleán Shiurdáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Castlejordan · English · main form
Place & story
The bawn wall
The archaeological survey records a substantial stone wall extending west-southwest from Castlejordan’s fortified house. About forty metres long and reaching roughly four metres high, it formed part of a bawn, or defensive enclosure. A nearby tower house may have occupied its southwest corner, but no connecting wall survives there to prove that arrangement. A later walled garden occupies much of the former enclosure, showing another use of the space. [2]
A date without a certain building
A small limestone plaque bearing the date 1632 is built into the rear part of the present farmhouse. The survey notes that it could originally have belonged to either the fortified house or the tower house nearby. Its survival supplies a dated piece of local building history, but its uncertain provenance prevents it from securely dating either ruined structure or identifying its builder. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.41178, -7.13198
- Logainm ID
- 1837 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlejordan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlejordan bawn, ME052-004002-, field description2016 · Michael Moore, Archaeological Survey of Ireland
- Castlejordan inscribed stone, ME052-005001-, field description2016 · Michael Moore, Archaeological Survey of Ireland
- The surviving bawn flanker at Castlejordan, County Meath, as photographed in June 2011 illustration: based on a Castles of Leinster: Castle Jordan, Meath (3) by Mike Searle. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-07. How this page was prepared.