What survives at Baldungan is the ruin of the old church and the church tower.
Photo 2001. See full size.
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What survives at Baldungan is the ruin of the
old church and the church tower.
Photo 2001.
See full size.
Baldungan Castle,
built by de Bermingham
in the 13th cent.,
was a short distance to the NW of the church,
as shown in this sketch from
[Grose, 1794]
(think the sketch is from 1791).
Photo 2001,
taken from the
Dúchas
plaque
at the Baldungan site
(although it says
Barnwall
built the castle, in the 13th cent.).
A small ruin survived until the 1970s,
as shown in
[Ir. Nat. Monuments],
and in
SKERRIES in
[AA Touring Guide to Ireland, 1976].
Today, the name "Baldungan Castle" is still on the gate,
but nothing of the castle now survives.
Unbelievably, sometime between the 1970s and today,
the ruin was destroyed
and the area ploughed as an open crop field.
Photo 2001.
See full size.
The path in from the road (to the NE of the ruin).
Photo 2001.
See full size.
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