Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Saggart, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saggart
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.27878, -6.44750
- SMR number
- DU021-034010-
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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
No surface remains visible of a castle in Saggart that was situated on a gentle rise on land sloping to the NW. Castle building demolished in 1972, with modern house now standing on the site of the castle. One of three castles in Saggart mentioned in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin (Simington 1945, 290). The Down Survey map of Newcastle Barony shows the settlement (DU021-034----) at Saggart clustered around two castles (DU021-034010-/014-) depicted as tower house type structures and a third ruinous castle annotated 'stump of a Castle' (DU021-034011- ) (Hibernia Reg.). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Saggart Parish recorded that in Saggart there are 'two Castles in repaire and one Stump of a Castle with some Thatcht Houses and Cabbins' (NLI Ms. 714).
NLI, Ms. 714 National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Dublin by W. Petty (1657). Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 42 maps with accompanying terriers, copied in 1786-7.
See attached Down Survey map of Newcastle Barony courtesy of The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 24 March 2023
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: county of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.