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About Trim Castle
Trim Castle is a sight (Castles) in Trim. The address is Castle St, C15 HN90 Trim. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +353469438619. Just around the corner: Trim Castle Hotel (hotel, 86 m) and The Bailey Brasserie (restaurant, 97 m).
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- Sight › Castles
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- Address
- Castle St
C15 HN90 Trim, Ireland - Phone
- +353469438619
- Website
- heritageireland.ie
- trimcastle@opw.ie
- Coordinates
- 53.55435° N · -6.78962° E
- Data quality
- confidence 0.99
- Identifier
- ID c25311df-87c…
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Substantial remains of a large Norman castle, built from 1174 by Hugh de Lacy, smashed up the moment his back was turned by Irish king Rory O'Connor, then rebuilt to 1224. It was captured but only slightly damaged in later upheavals, so it's well-preserved and makes a great movie location: in Braveheart it was used for York Castle. There's a long curtain wall on three sides, with the river protecting the other side; there's also a moat ditch and various barbicans and sally-ports. The sturdy 3-storey keep, unusually, is cruciform. It contained two great halls but is nowadays hollow. In 1465 King Edward IV made it a capital offence not only to rob, but to be going to rob at some unspecified time in the future, so the ten beheaded men found buried by the keep in 1971 were either thieves or a time-loop contradiction.
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