placenamesCastlelost
Caisleán Loiste
Lewis traced worship from the old castle lands through nearby Gaulstown to the church of 1815.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán Loiste · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Castlelost · English · main form
Place & story
An armoured figure and a later church
In 1837, Samuel Lewis described the ruined ancient parish church on Castlelost’s castle lands, with Tyrrell family monuments including an altar-tomb bearing a recumbent knight in armour. His account then traced a move to a church built by a member of the Rochfort family at Gaulstown. That building, in neighbouring Kilbride-Pilate parish, had served for more than a century before the church erected in 1815 with an £800 gift from the Board of First Fruits. Lewis described the Gaulstown church as ruined by his own time; he did not identify the knight represented on the older tomb. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Fartullagh
- Coordinates
- 53.41111, -7.30537
- Mapped area
- 38.22 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2451 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlelost. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlelost: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.