Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Murphystown, County Dublin, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.