Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Robswalls, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Robswalls
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU012-052----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Mc Dix (1897, 137, 147) there was a grass-covered mound close to Robswalls castle (DU012-006----). Local tradition records that it contained victims of a shipwreck (Flanagan, 1984, 117). Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Flanagan, N. 1984 Malahide: past and present. Malahide. Privately published.
McDix, E.R. 1897a Notes on some lesser castles in Co. Dublin. The Irish Builder, 39, 157-8.
McDix, E.R. 1897g The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 21st article: Deansrath Castle. Irish Builder 39, 178.
McDix, E.R. 1897f The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 9th article: Drimnagh. Irish Builder 39, 49-50.
McDix, E.R. 1897e The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. Irish Builder 39, 129, Roebuck castle.
McDix, E.R. 1897d The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 7th article. Irish Builder 39, 36.
McDix, E.R. 1897b The lesser castles of county Dublin. 5th article, Irish Builder 39, 12.
McDix, E.R. 1897c The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 6th article: Grange. Irish Builder 39, 22.