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
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.29798, -6.50766
- SMR number
- DU020-003007-
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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
This is a square, urban tower house with a stair turret at the NW angle. It is two storeys high and is built of coursed regular limestone blocks with dressed quoins. It is entered through a pointed doorway in the W wall which contains a door rebate and bar-bolt holes. There is a vault over ground floor with traces of wicker-work centring. The interior is lit by slit opes on the W and S walls and a large rectangular opening in S wall. Wall presses are present in the S wall and NE corner of interior (dims. L 4.5m; Wth 1.03m; see Anon 1914, 275-6; Mc Dix 1898, 85).
DU020-003007_01/02 Photographs courtesy of Rocshot.com/Rob O'Connor, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/10690, © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies
DU020-003007_03 Photograph courtesy of Tomás Maher, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/4229 © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 25 January 2023
References
McDix, E.R. 1898c The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 38th article: Newcastle. Irish Builder, 40, No. 85.
Anon. 1914b Drimnagh Castle. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 270-96.
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.