Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Newcastle South, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle South
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29894, -6.50700
- SMR number
- DU020-003006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In level ground immediately E of bend in Athgoe Road between two other tower houses is the possible site of another marked in 1980s by the foundations of mortared walls (O'Keeffe 1986, 55, Fig.4.1:3). Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
O'Keeffe, T. 1986 Medieval architecture and the village of Newcastle Lyons. In P. O'Sullivan (ed.), Newcastle Lyons: a parish of the Pale, 45-61. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.