Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Cheeverstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cheeverstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cheeverstown Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cheeverstown Castle
- Coordinates
- 53.29638, -6.40334
- SMR number
- DU021-024001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on flat, low lying ground W of Belgard hill. Demolished between the late 1970s and early 80s. Formerly a three-storied tower house which was square in plan (ext. dim. c. 7m) with a vault over ground floor and lit by plain slit loops. The entrance was in the in W (Mc Dix 1897, xxxix, 170). Mc Dix also mentions slight traces of a bawn and a well to the W of the castle.
There are no visible surface remains.
Compiled: by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 7 December 2011
References
McDix, E.R. 1897c The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 6th article: Grange. Irish Builder 39, 22.
McDix, E.R. 1897b The lesser castles of county Dublin. 5th article, Irish Builder 39, 12.
McDix, E.R. 1897e The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. Irish Builder 39, 129, Roebuck castle.
McDix, E.R. 1897d The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 7th article. Irish Builder 39, 36.
McDix, E.R. 1897a Notes on some lesser castles in Co. Dublin. The Irish Builder, 39, 157-8.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.