Killeen Castle, Dunsany

This article is about the castle in County Meath. For the tower house in County Galway, see Killeen Castle, Castlegar.

Killeen Castle before 2000s restoration

Killeen Castle (Irish: Caisleán an Chillín), located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th century structure, burnt out in 1981.

Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north, the other being the extant Dunsany Castle.[1] Its estate was occupied continuously by the Cusack, and then after a marriage, Plunkett, families, from 1172 to 1951.

  1. ^ Dunsany, County Meath, April 1991: Carty/Lynch - The History of Killeen Castle; Mary Rose Carty, ISBN 0-9517382-0-8