Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castleland, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleland
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- SMR number
- DU005-221-----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle in the townland of Castleland, in the parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Fingal, has not been identified. The 1654-6 Civil Survey of County Dublin recorded that in the year 1641 on the lands of Nicholas Eustace of Corfy, an Irish papist, there was ‘a farme in Balrothery called Castele Land’ measuring 38 acres in size on which there stood a ‘Burnt Castle & three small tenem[en]ts Valued by ye Jury twenty poundes’ (Simington 1945, 12)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
References
NLI, MS 714 – National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Dublin by W. Petty attested 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 42 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil Survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: County of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.