Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gateway
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.31159, -6.27393
- SMR number
- DU022-086002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Rathgar Castle formerly stood on the site immediately adjoining the top of the present Rathgar Road and the start of Orwell Road (Joyce 1912, 188). In 1782 Austin Cooper in his diaries describes an entrance gateway (Ball 1903, 146). No visible surface trace.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.