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Baile Átha Troim
Excavations on High Street revealed successive phases of building beneath the modern cultural centre.
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
- Baile Átha Troim · Irish · main form
- Trim · English · main form
Place & story
A possible medieval stronghold
At Trim Library and Cultural Centre in Townparks North, archaeologist Liam Coen recorded a substantial ditch followed by a masonry building, perhaps fifteen metres square, with a parallel boundary wall. Pottery from inside the walls dated the building to the twelfth or thirteenth century. Coen tentatively interpreted the surviving foundations as a tower house or castle. Later activity included cellars and a well. Piled foundations for the library development allowed the medieval remains and associated deposits to be preserved in place. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Civil parish
- Trim
- Coordinates
- 53.55681, -6.79268 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 39220 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Trim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2022:722: Trim Library and Cultural Centre, Townparks North; licence21E0328 · Liam Coen; Excavations.ie, Wordwell Ltd.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-05-26. How this page was prepared.