Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Booterstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30487, -6.19791
- SMR number
- DU023-004----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the present site of a late 18th century house at the junction of Pembroke Cottages and Booterstown Avenue near Booterstown marsh. Named on the OS 1843 edition as 'Booterstown Cas'. Booterstown Castle was built in the first half of the 15thcentury by the Fitzwilliam family on the site of acastle. According to the Patent Rolls (13 Hen VI) Philip Fitzwilliam petitioned the king to provide funds to fortify a castle which had been destroyed in the beginning of the 15th-century (Ball 1900, 310). In the early 17th century it was held by Sir William Ryves, Attorney General and in 1619 after the Restoration the castle was occupied by a family called Reyly. Vaults belonging to the 15th century, are said to have been incorporated into a house that occupies the site. No visible surface trace.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018
References
Ball, E.F. 1900b The Antiquities from Blackrock to Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 307-18.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.