View Over Boyne River From Trim Castle
by Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
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View Over Boyne River From Trim Castle
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Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
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Photograph - Photography - Digital Photography
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Trim Castle, Trim, County Meath, Ireland, on the bank of the Boyne has an area of 30,000 m�. It is the remains of Ireland's largest Anglo-Norman castle. It was built primarily by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter.The Castle was used as a centre of Norman administration for the Liberty of Meath, one of the new administrative areas of Ireland created by Henry II of England and granted to Hugh de Lacy. de Lacy took possession of it in 1172. De Lacy built a huge ringwork castle defended by a stout double palisade and external ditch on top of the hill. There may also have been further defences around the cliffs fringing the high ground. Part of a stone footed timber gatehouse lies beneath the present stone gate at the west side of the castle. The ringwork was attacked and burnt by the Irish but De Lacy immediately rebuilt it in 1173. His son Walter continued rebuilding and the castle was completed c 1224. The next phase of the castle�s construction took place at the end of the 13th century, and the beginning of the 14th century. A new great hall with undercroft and attached solar in a radically altered curtain tower, a new forebuilding, and stables were added to the keep. On Walter's death in 1241 his granddaughter Mathilda inherited the castle. Her second husband was Geoffrey de Geneville, Lord of Vaucouleurs in France. Mathilda died in 1304, and Geoffrey entered the priory at St. Mary's in Trim. His son had died in 1292 and the estate passed to his oldest daughter, Joan. In 1301 Joan married Roger Mortimer and the castle passed to the Mortimer family who held it until 1425, when the line died out. The estate passed to Richard of York, who was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460. In 1461 his son, Edward IV, appointed Germyn Lynch of London to be his representative at Trim.
The castle site was chosen because it is on raised ground, overlooking a fording point over the River Boyne. The area was an important early medieval ecclesiastical and royal site, and although the site is about 25 miles from the Irish Sea, it was accessible in medieval times by boat up the River Boyne.
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December 7th, 2012
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