Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Staplestown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Staplestown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Staplestown Turrets (site of)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Staplestown Turrets (Site of), Tower (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.81840, -6.88791
- SMR number
- CW007-037001-
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
The following 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
Large house, known as 'the Turrets', home of Sir William Temple for about a decade in mid-seventeenth century. Earthworks to N and SE of site are probably landscape features. Medieval village lay in vicinity of Steplestown Lodge and Staplestown Bridge. Neither house nor village, which were illustrated by Dineley in 1680 (JRSAI 1862-3, 44-5), are marked on Down Survey of 1650.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.