Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Graiguenaspiddoge, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graiguenaspiddoge
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Graiguenaspiddoge Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graiguenaspiddoge Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.76332, -6.85602
- SMR number
- CW012-037----
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
According to ITA Survey (1945), building was rectangular (dims. c. 9m x 7.5m) and constructed of granite (max. H of walls c. 3m). ' … there was a low arched doorway but the form of the other openings had been destroyed'. Now levelled.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.