Moydrum Castle, Gothic Revival castle in County Westmeath, Ireland.

Moydrum Castle is a ruined Gothic Revival castle east of Athlone in County Westmeath, built for William Handcock, 1st Baron Castlemaine, and completed in 1814 to designs by architect Richard Morrison, who remodelled and enlarged an earlier family house of about 1750. Today pale grey stone walls with arched openings and three tall narrow windows stand in a field, heavily overgrown with ivy.

William Handcock commissioned architect Richard Morrison to build this castle in 1814 on lands his family had held since the Cromwellian plantation. The structure was destroyed in 1921 during the Irish War of Independence when armed groups targeted it as a symbol of British colonial power.

The Irish Republican Army burned the castle on July 3, 1921, as a response to British military actions during the Irish War of Independence.

The location sits in rural countryside and can be reached via the M6 motorway by exiting at Junction 9 and then following minor roads to approach the site. The ruins stand in open fields, so visitors should be prepared for uneven ground and exposed weather conditions.

Anton Corbijn photographed the ruin for U2's 1984 album 'The Unforgettable Fire', shooting from the same spot and with the same polarising filter as Simon Marsden's 1980 book 'In Ruins: The Once Great Houses of Ireland'. U2 had to pay compensation, and the infrared film turned the leaves pale and the sky nearly black.