Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

This is an 18th-century castellated building with some 19th-century remodelling that incorporates a 16th-century castle built by the 5th Lord Trimblestown (Bence-Jones 1988, 244-245). It houses administration in the campus of University College, Dublin. The original castle was almost totally destroyed during the 1641 Rebellion (Mc Dix 1897, 129). Austin Cooper in his diaries c. 1781 describes a large L-shaped castle with an inscribed stone in a window of the NW angle. This displayed the Arms of the Trimblestown family and in a later inscription 'in 1509 John the 3rd Baron of Trimblestown was Lord Chancellor of Ireland and resided in the castle here' (Price 1943 58). The castle was re-built c. 1794 by the 13th Lord of Trimblestown with the further addition of a three-storey Victorian Gothic porch with a battlemented gable in 1874.

Compiled by Geraldine Stout

Date of upload: 25th April 2012

References

Bence-Jones, M. 1988 A guide to Irish country houses. London

Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.

McDix, E.R. 1897a Notes on some lesser castles in Co. Dublin. The Irish Builder, 39, 157-8.

McDix, E.R. 1897b The lesser castles of county Dublin. 5th article, Irish Builder 39, 12.

McDix, E.R. 1897d The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 7th article. Irish Builder 39, 36.

McDix, E.R. 1897c The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 6th article: Grange. Irish Builder 39, 22.

McDix, E.R. 1897e The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. Irish Builder 39, 129, Roebuck castle.

McDix, E.R. 1897f The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 9th article: Drimnagh. Irish Builder 39, 49-50.

McDix, E.R. 1897g The lesser castles in the Co. Dublin. 21st article: Deansrath Castle. Irish Builder 39, 178.