Castle - tower house

The National Monuments Service's description

Gabriel Beranger's drawing of 1776 shows a three-storey tower at the south-eastern corner of a walled enclosure (Harbison 1998, 68-9). In 1778 when Austin Cooper visited Cappoge Castle it stood as a three-storey tower house with corner turret in the SE (Price 1942, 37). It was associated with the Woodcock family from the 13th to the 16th century (Ball 1920, 18-19). Demolished before 1860 (Healy 1975, 27). Not visible at ground level.
Excavations (Licence nos. 06E0228ext and 08E0032ext) were undertaken north of the site of Cappogue castle in advance of the Ballycoolin Road Realignment. The standing remains of a structure appear to have incorporated part of the remains of the gatehouse of the castle but no definite remains of the tower house were identified on this site and it is highly likely that the stone from this structure was re-used after it fell into disuse in the 17th century (McQuade 2010, 87).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Updated by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 23 January 2015

References

Healy, P. 1975b Third report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha, Dublin.

Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.

Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An Eighteenth Century Antiquary. Falconer, Dublin.

Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.

Harbison, P. 1998 Beranger's antique buildings of Ireland. Dublin. Four Courts Press in association with the National Library of Ireland.

McQuade, M. 2010a Report on excavations: Ballycoolin Road realignment to the north and east of the ‘site of' Cappoge Castle, Dublin 11 (Licence nos.06E0228extand 08E0032ext.). Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.