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Mural tower (Historic Town)

County Dublin, Ireland

The record

County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.34305, -6.26659
SMR number
DU018-020003-

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American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1836 · Dublin (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Large scale plan of Dublin. (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
  • 1908 · Dublin, Ireland 1908 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Dublin Castle: Stands at the SE corner of Dublin Castle. Variously known as the 'Record Tower', the' Black Tower' and the 'Wardrobe Tower'. Under construction c. 1228; restored and re roofed c. 1566. It is a massive circular tower, three storeys high. Battlements were added in 1819 (FMD map, 1978, A3). Extant in modified form 2002 (Lynch and Manning 2001, 169-204; Clarke 2002, 22).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 23 November 2022

References

Clarke, H.B. 1978 Dublin c. 840 - c. 1540: the medieval town in the modern city. Dublin.

Clarke, H.B. 2002 Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 11: Dublin, part I, to 1610. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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