Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Meakstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meakstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.40672, -6.29195
- SMR number
- DU014-020001-
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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, 492) there was an extensive brick mansion here, the property of Sir James Ware (1594-1666), noted scholar, antiquarian and Auditor-General of Ireland. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes Ware's Meakstown holdings in some detail: 'There is upon ye premises a dwelling house of Brick with other office houses therto belonging-as a barne & a stable. Also an orchard and Garden Plott Valu'd by ye Jury at 300 li'. Together with 140 acres of land, the Meakstown house constituted the most valuable of Ware's Dublin properties, granted to him in 1638 (Simington 1945, 202).
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.