Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Coppenagh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coppenagh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Coppenagh Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Coppenagh Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.82976, -6.73911
- SMR number
- CW008-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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
SE wall of barrel-vaulted structure of granite boulders aligned NW-SE, with large embrasures on ground floor and loft below vault. Ground plan obscured by large pieces of fallen masonry and debris. (OSL 1939, 356; ITA Survey 1945).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.