Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tallaght
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28882, -6.36126
- SMR number
- DU021-037020-
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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
The square tower (DU021-037010-) was probably a gate tower to a much larger building (Bradley and King 1988, 320). Monk Mason's (1818) drawing shows a much more extensive castle complex. Handcock states that the parts of this more extensive castle's foundations have been found on occasion, and that there appears to have been an enclosing fosse (Handcock 1899, 29, 35; Bradley & King 1988, 331; O'Curry 1837, 32-3). The original castle was constructed in the first half of the early fourteenth century. Ball states that the castle was used as a garrison in the time of the Geraldine Rebellion (1905, 8).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Mason, W.M. 1820 The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick, near Dublin. Dublin. Author.
Handcock, W.D. 1877 (1991 ed.) The history and antiquities of Tallaght in the county of Dublin. Dublin. Anna Livia Press.
Ball, E.F. 1902-20 (Reprint 1979) A history of the County Dublin, 6 vols. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.
Bradley, J. & King, H. (1988) Urban Archaeological Survey, Dublin, Volume 4. A report commissioned by the Office of Public works (Unpublished).
Nearby in the register
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.