Trim Castle

Trim Castle is a Norman fort on the south bank of the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, Ireland. With an area of 30,000 m², it's miles the most important Norman citadel in Ireland. Over a length of 30 years, it become built by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter as the caput of the Lordship of Meath. The Castle became used as a centre of Norman administration for the Lordship of Meath, one of the new administrative areas of Ireland created through King Henry II of England.

The website online became selected because it's far on raised ground, overlooking a fording factor at the River Boyne. The vicinity became an important early medieval ecclesiastical and royal web site that turned into navigable in medieval times by way of boat up the River Boyne, about 25 miles from the Irish Sea. Trim Castle is referred to within the Norman poem The Song of Dermot and the Earl.