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Castle - unclassified

Ballynunnery, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Ballynunnery, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynunnery
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ballynunnery Castle in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Ballynunnery Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.77239, -6.83081
SMR number
CW013-022----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

OS Namebooks record 'the ruins of a Castle … with part of one tower standing'. According to O'Toole (JKAS 1933, 301, 304-5) who includes a photograph, 'portion of the tower … is about 12 feet in height, and has walls 5 feet thick. Several of the out houses of the present farm house, seem to be have been portion of the out buildings of the Castle. In one there is a splayed window, which is 2 feet 10 inches wide inside, and narrows to 1 foot 8 inches on the outside; the wall is 3 feet thick'. Tower and some out houses have been levelled. Remains appear to belong to fairly substantial building. Down Survey (1655-6) map records castle and mill downstream (CW013-021----). Dineley's sketch of 1680 shows a complex of buildings including two tall square, gabled towers but no obvious signs of fortification (JRSAI 1862-3, 46-7).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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