Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Timahoe West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Timahoe West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Timahoe Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Timahoe Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.33244, -6.83903
- SMR number
- KD009-009----
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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 2005, 42), '… there is a field called Castlefield (where) there stood formerly a Castle, the walls of which were entirely cleared away more than 30 years ago'. However, the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map names an unroofed, rectangular structure (est. dims. L c. 18m N-S ; Wth c. 10m) 'Site of Timahoe Castle', at the NE end of 'Castle Field'. On gently undulating pasture c. 250m S of a church (KD009-008001-) and graveyard (KD009-008002-). No visible surface traces survive.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.