Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ward Upper, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ward Upper
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44445, -6.34412
- SMR number
- DU011-068----
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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 Civil survey (1654-6) describes the walls of an old castle at the Ward, held by Sir James Ware (Simington 1945, 235). This may have been formerly located where Ward House is situated just NE of the medieval parish church (DU011-039----). Austin Cooper's in 1779 describes the remains of an 'old castle. It is nothing more than the lower storey....built of small flat stones and is in a ruinous condition. The door is at one end opposite a window and the left corner as you enter a Gothic door which leads to the Orchard where there are pieces of other stone walls'. There are remains of an orchard to the rear of the present Ward House but no visible remains of a castle.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 09 January 2015
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.