Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Glebe (newcastle By., Newcastle Ed), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (newcastle By., Newcastle Ed)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29999, -6.50551
- SMR number
- DU020-003004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in level ground SE of church yard (DU020-003008-). It is a square tower, which rises to two storeys and is built of coursed limestone blocks with dressed quoins. Formerly entered from the S, now blocked, the present entrance is on E side. There is a vault over the ground floor (int. dims. L 4.7m; Wth 4.55m). The interior has been partitioned in more recent times. The stairwell in the SW corner is entered through a plain pointed doorway and is lit by slit opes. There is a stepped embrasure on the S side before entering the stairs which is an original feature. First floor is totally overgrown. There are remains of chamfered jambs on the E side of the entrance. This is probably the remains of the castle held by the Canons of St. Patrick's in 1547 (Ball 1905, III, 138). According to O'Meara (1903, 63) there is mention made of this castle in a list of ecclesiastical buildings presented to Henry VIII on the dis-establishment of the monasteries. A building attached to the N end of the tower house contains a limestone tablet on which is the inscription T. M. S. Anno 1727. According to Austin Cooper writing around 1780, this building served as a stable attached to the parsonage (Mc Dix 1898, 40, 85; Price 1942, 47).
DU020-003004-_01 Photograph courtesy of Tomás Maher, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/3772 © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies
DU020-003004-_02 Photograph courtesy of Tomás Maher, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/4103 © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 25 January 2023
References
Ball, E.F. 1902-20 (Reprint 1979) A history of the County Dublin, 6 vols. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.
Cooper, A. 1942 (ed. L. Price) An eighteenth-century antiquary; the sketches, notes and diaries of Austin Cooper (1759-1830). Dublin. J. Falconer.
O'Meara, Rev. C.P. 1903 Notes on Newcastle Lyons. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 4, 63.
McDix, E.R. 1898c The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 38th article: Newcastle. Irish Builder, 40, No. 85.
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.