Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carlow
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83629, -6.93585
- SMR number
- CW007-018002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
National Monument No. 10030. Large rectangular three-story limestone keep, of early thirteenth-century date, with circular towers at each angle. Present remains consist of W wall with circular end towers. Built on rising ground with large crennelated stone wall enclosing castle. Main entrance in W wall at first-floor level, now broken out. Similar ground plan to Ferns, Co. Wexford, and Lea, Co. Laois. (Leask 1936, 168-70; AJ 1973, 47-49; Bradley 1989, 8)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.