Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Belgard, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belgard
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Belgard Castle
- Coordinates
- 53.30405, -6.38767
- SMR number
- DU021-026----
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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 the N side of a low hill, midway down the slope. The NW angle of a tower house is incorporated into an 18th-century mansion. This tower house was associated with the Talbot family from the 15th to the 17th century. It rises to three stories with later 18th-century battlements added. Built of tightly coursed masonry with dressed quoins and lit by slit loops. The interior is not currently accessible (Ball 1899, 98; Handcock 1899, 54-6).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Ball, E.F. 1899a Ballymount Castle. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 98-9.
Handcock, W.D. 1877 (1991 ed.) The history and antiquities of Tallaght in the county of Dublin. Dublin. Anna Livia Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.