Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Saggart, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saggart
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU021-034014-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of one of three castles (DU021-034010-/011-) in Saggart mentioned in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin (Simington 1945, 290) has not been identified. An inquisition of 1547 shows that the vicars choral of St. Patrick's had one castle and 22a. in this townland, lying in different parcels' (D'Alton 1838, 723).
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: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 March 2023
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: county of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
D'Alton, J. 1838 (Reprint 1976) The history of the county of Dublin. Cork. Tower Books.
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.