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House - fortified house

County Dublin, Ireland

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County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.32099, -6.23479
SMR number
DU018-060020-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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

Shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map . St Mary Magdalen's Convent of Sisters of Charity, off Brookvale Road occupies the site of Donnybrook castle, an Elizabethan Mansion built by the Ussher's in 1560 (Ball 1903, 51-55). It was demolished in 1759 (Ball 1903, 54). An 18th-century drawing of the castle (op cit 52) shows a long rectangular, two-story building with a circular turret and lit by double-light, round-headed windows. Pre-development excavations in 1995 in the vicinity of the convent uncovered a gully (Wth 1.2m, D 0.3m) which formed part of a small, circular enclosure of probable, late medieval date (Mc Conway 1996, 13)).

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

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