Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Ballyloo, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyloo
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballyloo Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyloo Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.77458, -6.89932
- SMR number
- CW012-031----
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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
Rectangular structure (int. dims. c 5m x c. 9m) of two storeys plus loft below vault. Built with massive walls of roughly coursed granite boulders. Ground floor entrance in W wall by SW corner, leading to main chamber with barrel vault aligned N-S. Loops and embrasures in E, N, and S walls. Small vaulted chamber in thickness of W wall. Access to upper floor via mural stairs immediately inside entrance. Garderobe chute at NE angle. (JRSAI 1987, 33; Carloviana 1956, 14)
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.