Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Westown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Westown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Westown House
- Coordinates
- 53.57966, -6.29719
- SMR number
- DU004-043001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Westown House is an 18th-century mansion which incorporates portion of an earlier tower house and the ground floor of a possible hall (Knight of Glin, Griffin & Robinson Reprint 1889, 67; VBSCD 1993). The later may be the building referred to in the Civil survey (1654-6) as a stone house, which was partly slated (Simington 1945, 33). In 1993 the mansion and rear courtyard containing finely built out buildings were still in relatively good condition. The rear of the mansion and the outbuildings have since been demolished.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: county of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.