Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dromoland, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromoland
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dromoland Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dromoland Castle (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.78352, -8.90619
- SMR number
- CL042-063001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A section of the battered base of a possible tower house (L 9m) is indentifiable at the base of the NW wing of the present Dromoland castle (completed c. 1835) (pers. comm. Risteard Ua Cróinín, September 2018).
Revised by: Mary Tunney
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Date of revision: 25 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Gateway (present location)under 1 mi
- Bee-bolesunder 1 mi
- Bee-bolesunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.