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Castle - tower house

Newcastle South, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Newcastle South, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 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)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

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