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Castle - tower house

Murphystown, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Murphystown, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Murphystown
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Murphystown Castle (in ruins)
Coordinates
53.26700, -6.20875
SMR number
DU023-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Located to the E of Murphystown Road and Mount Eagle Lawn in the landscaped grounds of Glencairn. A fragment of a probable tower house inside the entrance gate of the British Embassy. The tower house comprises of portions of two walls built of granite masonry (Wall Wth 1.1m). Traces of a vault over the original ground floor are visible. (ITA Survey, 1945; Mc Dix 1897, 199).
Formerly, the lands on which the castle is located were the W boundary of the demesne lands of Kill of the Grange and were held successively by the Howels, the Cruises and subsequently Christchurch Cathedral (Anon 1900, 191).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 25 June 2018

References

Anon. 1900 Excursion to Tully, Rathmichael, Kiltiernan and other places in south County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 180-92.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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