Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Tullowphelim, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullowphelim
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.80407, -6.73404
- SMR number
- CW008-045002-
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
Probably constructed by Hugh de Lacey c. 1181 (Scott and Martin 1978, 195). No visible trace. (Bradley 1989, 68)
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1990 Urban archaeological survey - county Carlow. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Scott, A.B. and Martin, F.X. (eds) 1978 Expugnatio Hibernica: the conquest of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis. A new history of Ireland, ancillary publications, iii. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.