Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Balrinnet, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrinnet
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Balrinnet Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Balrinnet Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.39613, -6.98755
- SMR number
- KD003-005001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 33), ' … there is an old castle, none of which now remains, but an irregular heap of ruins. It is said that it was possessed by one of the 12 sons of Horus (Pierce) Birmingham, all of whom had castles in this neighbourhood'. On a low-lying, non-defensive site in open, very gently undulating pasture and associated with a possible medieval field system (KD003-003002-) and hollow-way (KD003-003003-). A low, circular grassed-over cairn (base diam. 10m; upper surface diam. 2m; H 2.7-3m) with some undressed, mortared-stone projecting through the sod cover is all that survives of what may have been a tower house.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.