Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Carbury, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carbury
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36164, -6.96900
- SMR number
- KD008-001003-
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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
The Anglo-Norman masonry castle (KD008-001002-) was extended and incorporated into a large late-16th/17th century fortified house in the Jacobean style, with a base batter on the W, high chimney stacks and gables, and large transomed windows with hood mouldings. The upper floors of wood were carried on large granite corbels, most of which have fallen out. The site of the main entrance is not identifiable, although there was an entrance on the S-front, onto which an avenue opens, leading to the summit of Carbury Hill. The building is overgrown, with much collapsed rubble masking the interior.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.