Liscartan

Liscartan (Irish: Lios Cartáin, meaning 'Cartan's fort'),[1] or Liscarton, is a townland and civil parish in County Meath, Ireland.

[3] A mid-17th-century civil survey shows that Sir Robert Talbot of Carton (brother of the 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, the Lord Lieutenant under King James II) and the Irish Papist Adam Missett of Bellewstown owned lands at Liscarton.

[6] Lord Cadogan was an army officer whose active military service began during the Williamite War in Ireland in 1689 and ended with the suppression of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion.

A close associate and confidant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, he was also a diplomat and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 until 1716, when he was raised to the peerage.

According to Slater's Directory in 1894, Liscartan consisted of 1,303 acres and the population in 1891 was 144 and Liscartan Castle, a modernised ancient building, was the seat of Hugh J. Cullen, Esq., J.P.. Liscarton Castle is a 15th-century castellated building that originally consisted of 2 towers connected by a large hall.

According to George Victor Du Noyer, Taafe's husband built the manorial church the following year, which according to Sir William Wilde: ""the church is remarkable for the extreme beauty of its eastern and western windows, each of which consists of one great light.... an exquisite variety of tracery, in the decorated style of gothic architecture, fills the head of both windows, and the mouldings are deep and well executed.