Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Balally, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balally
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27956, -6.22890
- SMR number
- DU022-024----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a natural rise at the foot of the Dublin Mountains. Balally Castle was built by William Walsh some time after 1407 when in a grant from the crown it was conditioned that a castle be built on the lands at Balally (Ball 1903, II, 73-74). This may have replaced a wooden dwelling built by John de Walhope in the late 13th-century (Ball 1900, 191). Today there is a childrens' playground on the site. There are no visible remains above ground.
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 25th April 2012
References
Ball, E.F. 1900a Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 191-92.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.