1000 BC
Bronze Age
Cuchulainn Saga, Standing Stone in Mount Field, Souterrain at Dun Dealga, Dun Dealga hill fort
1185 AD
Normans
Bertram de Verdun, Motte and Bailey Urban settlement at Castletown
1185 AD
Late 15th Century
Late Medieval
The Pale, Bellew’s Castle
1590
9 Years War
Hugh O’Neill’s visit to Castletown
1590
1641
Cromwellian Wars
Destruction of Bellew’s Castle, Confiscation of Bellew properties
1690
Battle of the Boyne
Visits by William and James
1690
1740
Georgian Period
Castletown Castle House built
18th Century
Landord Period
The Eastwoods
18th Century
1775
Grattan’s Parliament
Pirate Byrne
1798
United Irishmen
The Sham Squire, Burning of Saltown
1798
1831
National Education
The school in the graveyard
1839
The Night of the Big Wind
The destruction of the school
1839
1841
Repeal Movement
Monster Meeting in Mount Field
1850’s
Land Wars
Local Ribbonmen Attack on James Eastwood
1850’s
1860’s
The Age of Railways
James Barton of Farndreg
1861
1st Home Rule Bill
Liverpool Regiment sent to Belfast
1861
19th Century
Industrialisation
Brickworks, Electricity from Castletown mill
Late 19th Century
Celtic Revival
Opening of Museum, Renewed interest in Cuchulainn
Late 19th Century
1914-1918
World War I
Barton Deaths
1921
War of Independence
Burning of Dun Dealga
1921
1922
Civil War
Burning of Dun Dealga
