Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Tymon North, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tymon North
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tymon Castle
- Coordinates
- 53.29844, -6.33941
- SMR number
- DU022-007----
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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
Demolished in 1960. It was formerly situated on a prominent gravel hillock off Tymon Lane. This was a small, square 15th-century tower house attached to the prebend of St Patrick's Cathedral. It is well illustrated in a drawing by Beranger dated 1763 (Harbison 1998, 44-45). It had two diagonally opposed corner towers, one containing a stair tower. The entrance was placed unusually in the SW stair tower and defended by machicolation. It rose to three storeys with a vaulted basement and battlements (Johnson 1988, 557-72).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Harbison, P. 1998 Beranger's antique buildings of Ireland. Dublin. Four Courts Press in association with the National Library of Ireland.
Johnson, D. 1988 A lost Pale castle recorded. In G. Mac Niocaill and P.F. Wallace (eds), Keimelia: Studies in medieval archaeology and history in memory of Tom Delaney. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.