Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Richardstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Richardstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Richardstown Castle (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Richardstown Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.31299, -6.66844
- SMR number
- KD014-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Recorded in the OSL (Herity 2002, 26 (75)) as '… an old Castle … which is, according to the Namebook, "A square building about sixty feet in height"'. At the top of a long and very gentle S-facing pasture slope. A slightly raised, rectangular area (dims. L 16.8m E-W; Wth 10m; H 0.5m) of grassed-over, collapsed stone carries a small segment of 'in situ' mortared wall core (dims. L 1.8m E-W; T 1m; H 1.5m) from which the inner and outer facing stones have been robbed, and, 3m to the W, two similar but collapsed portions of wall core, one of which has inner and outer facing stones intact (wall T 1.2m).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.