Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dubber, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dubber
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dubber Castle (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.41438, -6.30092
- SMR number
- DU014-018----
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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
According to Adams (1881) the castle at Dubber was erected between 1582 and 1611 by Sir Christopher Daniel Bellingham, first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1665 (Adams 1881, 492). It was described as a 'small castle' with other 'ruined' walls in the Civil survey (1654-6 see Simington 1945, 199). By 1881 the only remains of the castle was a door-sill which lay NW of the present house (Adams 1881, 492). Located field of low-lying pasture to the rear of Dubber House. No visible surface trace.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 22 January 2015
References
Adams, B.W. 1881 Antiquarian notes, etc., of the parishes of Santry and Cloghran, Co. Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 15, 482-98.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: county of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.