Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Deansgrange, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deansgrange
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27786, -6.17147
- SMR number
- DU023-041----
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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 north of Foxrock Avenue and to the southwest of Dean's Grange Cemetery A site of a castle at Deansgrange, mentioned in 1900 (Anon 1900, 183) it is thought to be in the vicinity of shops at Dun Aengus (pers coms Liam Clare, Foxrock Historical Society). It is marked but not named on the 1843 OS 6-inch map on the end of lane off Kill lane.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 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
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.