Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clondalkin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32001, -6.39490
- SMR number
- DU017-041008-
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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 exact location of Moyle Castle has not been identified. Ua Broin (1944, 212) has suggested that it was located on the site of the gate lodge into the college (Moyle Castle Park). The Urban Survey of County Dublin recorded that; 'Austin Cooper recorded the presence of another fortified house close to Tully's Castle and Ball (1899, 97) stated that the remains of it could still be distinguished within the modern buildings which then, occupied the site. There is no trace of it today. Eighteenth century maps show the position of Moyle Castle at a point corresponding with the entrance to the College buildings (the former Moyle Park House) on the west side of Boot Road (Ua Broin 1944, 211-12). No surface remains visible.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 2023
References
Ball, E.F. 1899b Clondalkin, Tallaght, etc., west Co. Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 99-103.
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.
Ua Broin, L. 1944 Clondalkin, Co. Dublin and it's neighbourhood. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 74, 191-218.
Bradley, J. & King, H. (1988) Urban Archaeological Survey, Dublin, Volume 4. A report commissioned by the Office of Public works (Unpublished).
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.