Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Baldongan, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baldongan
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.55345, -6.12892
- SMR number
- DU005-038----
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a prominent hill overlooking the coast. Described by Austin Cooper in 1783 as a quadrangular court flanked by four towers attached to the west end of Baldongan church (DU005-037001) (Anon.1914, 250). It was illustrated in the 18th-century for Grosse's Antiquities of Ireland (ibid) and had a similar plan to St. John's Priory, Newtown, Trim Co. Meath, which belonged to the Fratres Cruciferi (Sweetman 1991, 88-104). the last remains were removed in 1975. Traditionally associated with the Knights Templars (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 325). It was the family seat of the Birminghams and the Barnewalls until the sixteenth century when it passed to the Lords of Howth (D'Alton, 1976 (2nd ed) 225; Healy 1975, 18). Site now traversed by pathway to Baldongan church within an arable field. There are no visible remains.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 15 November 2014
References
Sweetman, P.D. 1990-1 Archaeological excavations at St John's Priory, Newtown Trim, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, 8, 3, 88-104.
Healy, P. 1975b Third report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha, Dublin.
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Anon. 1914c North County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 250-68.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.