Carrick Castle (WM011-012----)

3D Model

Present remains consist of a two–storey high rectangular tower house (int. dims. 5.86m NW-SE x 4.65m NE-SW; wall T 1.4m) constructed with coursed rubble and rounded undressed quoins with no base-batter. Low scarp of levelled bawn wall (WM011-012001-) visible on all sides of the castle. Main entrance to castle in NE wall close to E angle was intact in 1864 and is now visible as a broken out gap with no dressed-stone of the doorway surviving. A narrow steep mural stairs (Wth 0.88m) with cross-slab ceiling in the SE wall gave access to the barrel-vaulted loft and first floor. Above the ground there is a loft covered with a barrel-vaulted roof with single light now broken out in centre of NW wall. The murder-hole over the lobby entrance was accessed through a doorway from the loft. Carrick Castle is not depicted on the lands of Carrick in the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Lacken parish, Co. Westmeath. In 1641 the lands of Carrick amounting to 379 acres belonged to the Irish papist Mathew Ledwitch.