TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Castle - tower house

Clonagh (Cadamstown ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Clonagh, 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
Clonagh (Cadamstown ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.39623, -6.91078
SMR number
KD003-017----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

According to O'Leary (1896-99, 135-38) a date stone (KD003-017001-) attests that a castle was built by John Lye in 1578. O'Leary also notes the presence of a 'religious house' (KD003-020----), 'burial place' (KD003-020001-) and stone cross (KD003-02002--) in this area and quotes from a 1608 Inquisition held at Naas that, '… John Lye of Rathbride, gent., being seized of divers lands in the said townland of Clonaugh, levelled the tenements, bounds, and limits of said religious house, threw down and destroyed the cross and trees and erected a tower, or small castle, with other buildings.' Also, according to O'Leary (1904, 172-3) stones from the demolished Clonagh Castle were used to build 'Kilshanchoe Church' (KD003-027----).
On a very slight rise c. 50m to the W of a small N-flowing stream in open pastureland. In 1985 there were no visible surface traces of the monument (SMR file). Two armorial plaques (KD004-002----) incorporated into the walls of a primary school in Johnstown village and an architectural fragment (KD004-003----) incorporated into a modern wall in the village are said to have come from the castle.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Castle - tower house in Kildare All County Kildare records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map