[2][3] The site remains accessible to the public; to enter, visitors need to place a deposit at the nearby B&B and receive a key.

Athlumney Castle is located on Convent Road, to the southeast of Navan town centre, east of the Boyne.

Athlumney overlooks a key strategic point, where the Leinster Blackwater drains into the Boyne.

They backed the Catholic James II and Launcelot Dowdall was High Sheriff of Meath in 1686.

The later Tudor fortified house is also three storeys high, with four sets of widely spaced mullioned windows.

[7] On the first floor there is a secret mural chamber, reached only by a set of stairs from above, assumed to be a priest hole.