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Castle - tower house

Mylerstown (Drehid ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Mylerstown, County Kildare, 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
Mylerstown (Drehid ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Mylerstown Castle in Ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Mylerstown Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.38015, -6.94065
SMR number
KD003-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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 at the NW-foot of a long, gentle, pasture slope, with a medieval church (KD003-011001-) and graveyard (KD003-011002-) c. 200m to the NW. According to Fitzgerald (1903-05, 319-20) it was 'a former Bermingham stronghold'. A low, rectangular, grass-covered platform (dims. L c. 30m NW-SE: Wth c. 18m; H 0.4-0.6m) defined by a scarp, carries two parallel, lower portions of castle walling and two sections of associated but collapsed mortared masonry. A SW wall (L 12m; Wth 1.5-1.7m; H2.6m) has most facing stones robbed-out, but two opes survive; a doorway (Wth 1.6m) and window embrasure (Wth 1.1-1.6m). Parallel to it (7m to NE) is a foundation-course of outer wall facing stones (L 3m), immediately to the S of which is a large pile of collapsed mortared masonry (dims. L 10m; Wth 5m), with a second, smaller area of displaced masonry (dims. L 3.5m ;Wth 2m) c. 10m to the NE. The monument was probably a tower house.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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