Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The precise location of Aderrig Castle has not been identified, however the location of the castle is shown to the S of the parish boundary with Lucan. In 1546 an Inquisition of the estate of the collegiate and cathedral church of St Patrick's recorded that in; 'the town-lands of Adderge and Marshallrathe is one castle, or mansion' (Mason 1820, 95). The castle is depicted as a tower house type building on the 17th-century Down Survey map of Newcastle Barony where it is shown standing immediately S of the S boundary between the parishes of Aderrig and Lucan (Hib. Reg.). This castle is also depicted on the Down Survey map of Aderrig parish map (NLI, Ms. 714). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin recorded that the parish of Aderrig 'containes the forfeited Towne lands of Adery and part of Backstowne; there is at Adery [Aderrig] an Old Castle a good farme House and some Cabbans at Backstowne' (Simington 1945, 290).

NLI, Ms. 714 National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Dublin by W. Petty (1657). Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 42 maps with accompanying terriers, copied in 1786-7.

See attached Down Survey map of Newcastle barony showing Aderrig Castle

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 31 May 2023

References

Mason, W.M. 1820 The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick, near Dublin. Dublin. Author.

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: county of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.